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Philadelphia Birth Cohort  

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  • The Philadelphia Birth Cohort study is renowned as the first large-scale longitudinal birth cohort study focusing on crime and delinquency in the United States. The methods and results are compiled in Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, by Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio, and Thorsten Sellin (1972). [Source: Encyclopedia of Juvenile Justice; Philadelphia Birth Cohort]

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