Arjan Blokland is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University, and Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam. Victor van der Geest is a development psychologist and Assistant Professor at VU University, Amsterdam.
This collection of works from the leading national and international scholars on life-course criminology is a wonderful gift to the field. Written in an accessible, yet authoritative manner, chapters touch on all matters from theory to data to policy. And it is choc-full of key research questions that will mark the landscape for years to come. I've learned so much already and I am sure that it will continue to be the gift that will keep on giving in the future. Alex R. Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology, University of Texas at Dallas, USA