David P. Farrington

Farrington was born in Ormskirk, England on 7 March 1944,{{Cite book |last=Tremblay |first=Richard E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z_wYEAAAQBAJ |title=The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention: Contributions of the Second World War Generation |date=2021-02-18 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-108-89026-7 |pages=122 |language=en}} the youngest son of William and Gladys Farrington. He was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A_5yAwAAQBAJ | title=Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science | publisher=SAGE Publications | author=Loeber, Rolf | year=2004 | pages=457–9| isbn=9781452265223 }} and later at Cambridge, where he received his BA, MA, and PhD in psychology.{{cite encyclopedia | title=David P. Farrington | pages=1–3 | encyclopedia=The Encyclopedia of Theoretical Criminology | publisher=Wiley-Blackwell | author1=Hawkins, Paul |author2=Kim, Bitna| year=2014| doi=10.1002/9781118517390.wbetc155 | chapter=Farrington, David P | isbn=9781118517390 | doi-access= }}

In 1969, Farrington became a research officer in criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he became assistant director of research in criminology in 1974 and a university lecturer in criminology in 1976. In 1992, he became a professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge. From 1971 to 2000, he taught seminars and supervised undergraduate law students taking classes in crime prevention and the psychological aspects of crime, among other subjects. He was the director of the senior criminology course for criminal justice professionals at Cambridge from 1975 to 1978, and again from 1983 to 2004. From 1998 to 2016, he was an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

Farrington was known for his research on the development of criminal behaviour throughout the life course; notably, he collaborated on the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development with the study's original director, Donald J. West. This study followed 411 London boys born just before and after 1953, and was conducted over 24 years. He also published studies comparing crime rates{{cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1998/11/09/a-record-were-happy-to-lose/ | title=A Record We're Happy To Lose | work=Chicago Tribune | date=9 November 1998 | access-date=9 May 2017}} and the probability of imprisonment given conviction of a crime{{cite book | title=Crime and Punishment in America | publisher=Macmillan | author=Currie, Elliott | year=1998 | chapter=Assessing the Prison Experiment}} in the United Kingdom and the United States. He was also known for his work on evaluating the effectiveness of interventions intended to prevent crime, such as closed-circuit televisions.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/may/18/cctv-crime-police | title=CCTV schemes in city and town centres have little effect on crime, says report | work=The Guardian | date=18 May 2009 | access-date=9 May 2017 | author=Travis, Alan}}

Farrington also published on a number of related topics within the field of criminology, including crime and physical health; bullying; and offender profiling. He authored eight systematic reviews for the Campbell Collaboration.

Farrington died on 5 November 2024, at the age of 80.{{cite web |title=Professor David Farrington |url=https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/People/professor-david-farrington |website=University of Cambridge |access-date=30 November 2024}}

In 2003, Farrington received an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his services to criminology.{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2003/dec/31/highereducation.uk | title=Father of world wide web receives knighthood | work=The Guardian | date=31 December 2003 | access-date=9 May 2017 | author=MacLeod, Donald}} In 2013, Farrington received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his work on early-life crime prevention programs.{{cite web | url=http://www.su.se/english/about/prizes-awards/the-stockholm-prize-in-criminology/prize-winners/prize-recipient-2013-1.174582 | title=Prize recipient 2013 | work=Stockholm Prize in Criminology | publisher=Stockholm University | access-date=9 May 2017 | archive-date=9 March 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180309183120/https://www.su.se/english/about/prizes-awards/the-stockholm-prize-in-criminology/prize-winners/prize-recipient-2013-1.174582 | url-status=dead }} He also received the Thorsten Sellin-Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck Award and the August Vollmer Award from the American Society of Criminology,{{cite web | url=http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/academic_research/david_farrington/ | title=David Farrington | publisher=Institute of Criminology | access-date=9 May 2017 | archive-date=10 May 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510112816/http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/academic_research/david_farrington/ | url-status=dead }} the European Association of Psychology and Law's Award for Outstanding Career-Long Contributions to the Scientific Study of Law and Human Behaviour, the Joan McCord Award from the Academy of Experimental Criminology, and the Jerry Lee Award from the American Society of Criminology Division of Experimental Criminology.

Farrington was president of the American Society of Criminology (1998–1999), the European Association of Psychology and Law (1997–1999), the British Society of Criminology (1990–1993), and the Academy of Experimental Criminology (2001–2003).{{Cite web |title=David Philip Farrington Curriculum Vitae |url=http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/academic_research/david_farrington/cviapr18.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180524004243/https://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/academic_research/david_farrington/cviapr18.pdf |archive-date=24 May 2018 |access-date=9 May 2017}} In 1975, he became a member of the British Society of Criminology, and in 1999, he became a member of the Academy of Experimental Criminology. He was also a former member of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (2004–2010) and International Society of Criminology (1998–2009). From 2015 to 2016, he was the chair of the American Society of Criminology's Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology.{{Cite web |url=http://www.dlccrim.org/officers-and-committees/ |title=Officers and Committees |website=ASC Division of Developmental and Life Course Criminology |language=en-US |access-date=2018-05-23}}

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• {{Cite journal|last=Farrington|first=David P.|date=1986|title=Age and crime|journal=Crime and Justice|language=en|volume=7|pages=189–250|doi=10.1086/449114|s2cid=144772884|issn=0192-3234}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Farrington|first=David P.|date=1989|title=Early predictors of adolescent aggression and adult violence|journal=Violence and Victims|volume=4|issue=2|pages=79–100|doi=10.1891/0886-6708.4.2.79|pmid=2487131|s2cid=1880841|issn=0886-6708}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Farrington|first=David P.|date=1993|title=Understanding and preventing bullying|journal=Crime and Justice|language=en|volume=17|pages=381–458|doi=10.1086/449217|s2cid=144415152|issn=0192-3234}}
• {{Cite journal|last=Farrington|first=David P.|date=1995|title=The development of offending and antisocial behaviour from childhood: key findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development|journal=Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry|volume=36|issue=6|pages=929–964|doi=10.1111/j.1469-7610.1995.tb01342.x|issn=0021-9630|pmid=7593403}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Loeber|first1=Rolf|last2=Farrington|first2=David P.|date=2000|title=Young children who commit crime: Epidemiology, developmental origins, risk factors, early interventions, and policy implications|journal=Development and Psychopathology|language=en|volume=12|issue=4|pages=737–762|doi=10.1017/S0954579400004107|pmid=11202042|s2cid=20506392|issn=0954-5794}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Jolliffe|first1=Darrick|last2=Farrington|first2=David P.|date=2006|title=Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale|journal=Journal of Adolescence|language=en|volume=29|issue=4|pages=589–611|doi=10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.010|pmid=16198409}}
• {{Cite journal|last1=Ttofi|first1=Maria M.|last2=Farrington|first2=David P.|date=2010|title=Effectiveness of school-based programs to reduce bullying: a systematic and meta-analytic review|journal=Journal of Experimental Criminology|volume=7|issue=1|pages=27–56|doi=10.1007/s11292-010-9109-1|s2cid=5433291|issn=1573-3750}}

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• {{Cite book|title=Who Becomes Delinquent? Second Report of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development|last1=West|first1=Donald James|last2=Farrington|first2=David P.|date=1973|publisher=Heinemann|isbn=0-435-82937-8|location=London|oclc=815962|author-link=Donald J. West}}
• {{Cite book|title=Understanding and Controlling Crime : Toward a New Research Strategy|last1=Farrington|first1=David P.|last2=Ohlin|first2=Lloyd E.|last3=Wilson|first3=James Q.|date=1986|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-4612-4940-5|location=New York, NY|oclc=852792490}}
• {{Cite book|title=Sex and violence : the psychology of crime and risk assessment|last=Farrington, David P. Hollin, Clive R. McMurran, Mary.|date=2001|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-0-415-26890-5|oclc=48677690}}
• {{Cite book|title=Saving Children from a Life of Crime: Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions|last1=Farrington|first1=David P.|last2=Welsh|first2=Brandon C.|date=2007|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-537899-3|location=New York, NY|oclc=1086243971}}
• {{Cite book|title=International Perspectives on Cyberbullying: Prevalence, Risk Factors and Interventions|last1=Baldry|first1=Anna Costanza|last2=Blaya|first2=Catherine|last3=Farrington|first3=David P.|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2018|isbn=978-3-319-73263-3|location=London|oclc=1035389960|author-link=Anna Costanza Baldry}}
• {{Cite book|title=The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology|last1=Farrington|first1=David P.|last2=Kazemian|first2=Lila|last3=Piquero|first3=Alexis Russell|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2018|isbn=978-0-19-020137-1|location=New York, NY|oclc=1028581337}}

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