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12 Crim. Behav. & Mental Health 1 (2002)

handle is hein.journals/cbmh12 and id is 1 raw text is: Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health, 12, 1-23 2002 0 Whurr Publishers Ltd Editorial Introduction Three longitudinal studies of children's development in Pittsburgh: the Developmental Trends Study, the Pittsburgh Youth Study, and the Pittsburgh Girls Study ROLF LOEBER, MAGDA STOUTHAMER-LOEBER, DAVID P. FARRINGTON2, BENJAMIN B. LAHEY3 , KATE KEENAN3 AND HELENE R. WHITE', 'Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; 2Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge; 3Department of Psychiatry, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA; 'Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ, USA Introduction It is not common in longitudinal studies on child development to be able to trace the intellectual pedigree for one longitudinal study. The three Pittsburgh-based longitudinal studies that are the focus of this special issue have their intellectual ancestry both in the United States and in England. The US origin of the Developmental Trends Study, the Pittsburgh Youth Study and the Pittsburgh Girls Study can be found in the planning phase for the Oregon Youth Study, which Magda Stouthamer-Loeber and Rolf Loeber helped to set up under the guidance of Gerald R. Patterson and John B. Reid from 1979 to 1983. The European origin of the three Pittsburgh studies is the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, which David P. Farrington has spearheaded since 1982, and which was started by Donald West in 1961. The fact that David P. Farrington joined the investigative team in Pittsburgh has been of great benefit, encouragement and stimulation over the past 15 years. One may wonder whether three longitudinal studies are not a bit much to undertake in one lifetime. Most longitudinal investigators are already glad to be able to undertake a single longitudinal study over decades. So, why three? Once Rolf and Magda Loeber had left Eugene in 1983, they and David Farrington decided to pool their strengths and create a longitudinal study, called the Pittsburgh Youth Study, based on a community sample of 1517 young 1

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