The 2012 Elliott Youth Development Lecture

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Nov 2013

Roger J. R. Levesque

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The 2012 Elliott Youth Development Lecture

Roger J. R. Levesque 0 0 R. J. R. Levesque (&) Indiana University , Bloomington, USA - use, and mental health problems. In developmental/life course criminology studies, he has published both empirical and review articles. In the empirical realm, for example, he has focused on numerous topics, including developmental pathways to serious forms of delinquency, the contribution of family processes, biological factors, and antecedents to homicide offending and victimization. He is recorded as among the most frequently cited and prolific authors in many disciplines, and his research is truly international. He is the 74th most cited psychologists who are members of the American Psychological Association, a group that has approximately 150,000 members. Among criminologists, he currently is the 11th most cited. Overall, he is the author or co-author on almost 250 peer-reviewed papers, 12 books, and over 130 chapters. With Marc LeBlanc, he published two seminal papers on developmental/life course criminology in 1990 and 1998 when that field was still emerging. His work is international in that it comprises research in developmental/life course criminology studies in North America and Europe. With David P. Farrington, he cochaired in the United States three study groups, one on serious and violent offenders, a second on child delinquents, and a third on the transition between juvenile offending and adult crime. Each of these study groups was then replicated in Europe with a team of scholars of the Netherlands and other parts of Europe, leading to separate book-sized publications. In the Netherlands, he held a professorship for 15 years until June 2012, when he reached the Dutch retirement age. In addition to being so well published in multiple disciplines relating to criminology and developmental sciences, he has published widely in other scholarly areas. Notably, for example, he has published extensively in Irish colonial history, architecture, and social and economic history (6 books and 59 articles). His most recent book, The Architecture of Ireland, 16002000 is in press with Yale University Press. Professor Loeber has a number of elected memberships. For example, he is Senior Fellow, NSCR (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Amsterdam, Netherlands); Institute Fellow, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England; Life Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England; Fellow, American Society of Criminology; and Fellow, American Psychological Association. He also is an elected member of the Koninklijke Academie van Wetenschappen (Royal Academy of Sciences) in the Netherlands, and the Royal Irish Academy in Ireland. Professor Loebers lecture was the second in our series (see Levesque 2011), and the resulting article breaks new ground for the journal and journals similarly devoted to the multidisciplinary study of adolescent development. The first Elliott Lecture was presented by Piquero (2011), a noted criminologist who presented his groundbreaking work on criminal careers. That research is well represented in this journal, particularly by Piquero and his colleagues (see Goldweber et al. 2011). Professor Loebers topic, which focuses on developmental aspects of killings, is markedly new to developmental journals centered on the multidisciplinary study of adolescence. Notably, the journal, and its peers, increasingly publish research on violence with weapons (Stoddard et al. 2011) as well as severe violence (Estrada-Martnez et al. 2011), including suicidal behaviors (Gomez et al. 2011; Jacobson et al. 2011; Verona and Javadani 2011). But, extreme violence such as killings remains rarely explored in developmental journals like ours. Given that, we could not be more pleased to have Professor Loeber present his truly cutting-edge research in this area. Since so few researchers who study homicide so actively have adopted a developmental framework and have such rich data to support it, we hope that his invited article, which addresses key developmental questions, will increase interest in this field and the many questions it raises. Even though Professor Loebers data remains unmatched, and so few developmentalists focusing of the adolescent period can parallel his efforts, his work raises numerous theoretical, methodological, and practical issues that continue to influence the field and serves as an exemplar of well-conducted research with immense societal import. (...truncated)


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Roger J. R. Levesque. The 2012 Elliott Youth Development Lecture, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013, pp. 1637-1639, Volume 42, Issue 11, DOI: 10.1007/s10964-013-0025-3