David P. Farrington
| David Farrington | |
|---|---|
| Native name | David Philip Farrington |
| Born | 1944 (age 72–73) Ormskirk, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Spouse(s) | Sally Chamberlain (m. 1966) |
| Children | Lucy, Katie, and Alice |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2003), (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology, psychology |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Continuity and discontinuity in verbal learning (1970) |
David Philip Farrington OBE (born 1944 in Ormskirk, Lancashire, England) 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. 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."
Farrington was born in Ormskirk, England in 1944, the youngest son of William and Gladys Farrington. He was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School and later at Cambridge, where he received his BA, MA, and PhD in psychology.
In 1969, Farrington became a research officer in criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he became assistant director of research in criminology in 1974 and a university lecturer in criminology in 1976. In 1992, he became a professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge. From 1971 to 2000, he taught seminars and supervised undergraduate law students taking classes in crime prevention and the psychological aspects of crime, among other subjects. He was the director of the senior criminology course for criminal justice professionals at Cambridge from 1975 to 1978, and again from 1983 to 2004. From 1998 to 2016, he was an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
Farrington is known for his research on the development of criminal behavior throughout the life course; notably, he collaborated on the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development with the study's original director, Donald J. West. This study followed 411 London boys born just before and after 1953, and was conducted over 24 years. He has also published studies comparing crime rates and the probability of imprisonment given conviction of a crime in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is also known for his work on evaluating the effectiveness of interventions intended to prevent crime, such as closed-circuit televisions.
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