David P. Farrington

David Farrington
David Philip Farrington
Born (1944-03-07) 7 March 1944 (age 80)
Ormskirk, Lancashire, England
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Spouse
Sally Chamberlain
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(m. 1966)​
ChildrenLucy, Katie, and Alice
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire (2003)
Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2013)
Scientific career
FieldsCriminology, psychology
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisContinuity and discontinuity in verbal learning (1970)

David Philip Farrington OBE (born 7 March 1944 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England)[1] is a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he is also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow.[2] In 2014, Paul Hawkins and Bitna Kim wrote that Farrington "is considered one of the leading psychologists and main contributors to the field of criminology in recent years."[3]

  1. ^ Tremblay, Richard E. (18 February 2021). The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention: Contributions of the Second World War Generation. Cambridge University Press. p. 122. ISBN 978-1-108-89026-7.
  2. ^ "David P. Farrington". Early Intervention Foundation. Retrieved 9 May 2017.
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