Peggy C. Giordano

Peggy C Giordano is Distinguished Research Professor at Bowling Green State University. Her research - published in leading journals such as Criminology, American Sociological Review, and the American Journal of Sociology - has long focused on the causes of juvenile delinquency, particularly on toon meer similarities and differences in male and female pathways to criminal involvement. Her analyses of the adult lives of a sample of delinquent youth have twice won the American Sociological Association's James F. Short, Jr., award for best article. This book extends this research in a unique exploration of the lives of the children of the original study subjects. toon minder