Rolf Loeber is Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, and Epidemiology, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, USA. Machteld Hoeve is Research Fellow Forensic Child and Youth Care Sciences, University of Amsterdam. N. Wim Slot is Professor of Education and Child Protection, VU University Amsterdam.

• 1: Introduction; 2: Criminal Career Patterns; 3: Disentangling Context Effects on Criminal Careers; 4: Explanations of Offending; 5: Vulnerable Youth in Pathways to Adulthood; 6: Risk Assessment and the Impact of Risk and Protective Factors; 7: Juveniles in Transition from Juvenile Justice to Adult Criminal Justice; 8: Offending and Justice Response at the Juvenile—Adult Interface; 9: Prevention Programmes in Early and Middle Childhood and Their Effect on Adult Crime; 10: Interventions; 11: European Perspectives; 12: Overview, Conclusions, and Policy and Research Recommendations

'Loeber and colleagues have done it again! Following on the success of Tomorrow's Criminals, this book brings together top-notch scholarship and intelligent policy proposals on another pressing social issue of our age: the transition of juvenile delinquency to adult crime. It demands serious attention.' Brandon C. Welsh, Northeastern University, USA and Senior Research Fellow, NSCR, The Netherlands 'Rolf Loeber and his colleagues show the reader that empirical findings and practical implications can go hand in hand. In this book about the longitudinal course of crime, the authors collected an immense amount of information in a highly comprehensive and readable way.' Frank Verhulst, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands