Richard E. Tremblay is Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics and Psychology at the University of Montreal, Canada. He received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology, the American Society of Criminology's Sellin-Glueck Award, the Academy of Experimental Criminology's Joan McCord Prize and the award for lifetime contributions to research on aggression from the International Society for Research on Aggression.

• 1. Introduction Richard E. Tremblay; 2. From birth in a British orphanage to assessments of American Indians' development Elizabeth Jane Costello; 3. From rationing, illness and stress to the creation of a major longitudinal birth cohort Jean Golding; 4. From a country girl in south Finland to longitudinal research on alternatives to aggression and violence Lea Pulkkinen; 5. From occupied Netherlands to the Pittsburgh longitudinal studies Magda Stouthamer-Louber and Rolf Loeber; 6. From delinquent development to old age crime David P. Farrington; 7. Nurture and nature – surviving in the shadows of war Menno R. Kruk; 8. From an unruly child to a political protester and a promoter of ecology-minded concept of human development Rainer K.Silbereisen; 9. From the frustration-aggression hypothesis to moral reasoning and action Gian-Vittorio Caprara; 10. A torturous path towards understanding and preventing the development of chronic physical aggression Richard E. Tremblay; 11. From a ruined German neighborhood to resilient human development Friedrich Losel; 12. The last war baby Benjamin B. Lahey; 13. Comments on the autobiographies of the World War II babies by younger peers.

'Edited by a world-leading authority, this one-of-a-kind volume is an invaluable resource for all scholars studying how violence develops early in life, and what we can do to stop that progression. Academic books are rarely page-turners, yet this one is. It is at once a heart-rending, educational, and fun read. It has my highest recommendation.' Adrian Raine, Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania