Personal Dedications to David P. Farrington

David Farrington's death means a great loss to us personally, to the academic community and to the people he sought to understand. Donald West introduced him and their longitudinal study of Camberwell boys to one of us in the 1960s at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. The study became The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development. David's passion for the scientific study of the causes of crime already shone through and was very impressive. He never wavered in his enthusiasm nor in his dedication to that cohort study, despite branching out into more experimental work, including randomised controlled trials of interventions to ameliorate some of the problems so clearly recognised. The Camberwell/Cambridge study is among the most impressive in the world for its completeness at each follow-up stage and that was due to the care with which David forged a bond with the boys as they grew into men so that they felt like true participants in a journey of discovery. They then introduced him to their sons and grandsons such that the study became remarkable also for its intergenerational perspectives. It has produced a large number of papers and books—which should be a politician's guide to reducing the burden of crime but which has proved very difficult to get centre stage in spite of his many efforts to do this. Through this work, David also linked to other longitudinal studies worldwide. We were always immensely grateful that, as a result, we had David to provide the foundation chapter in our textbook of forensic psychiatry for the main sections on understanding pathways into criminal behaviour. Only through such prospective study can we truly understand whether and how the many forms of experience and of mental disorder that may contribute to criminal behaviours actually do so. No dry academic, David was always a good friend and a cheerful role model. Lunches in the delightful village of Granchester were both memorable and educational. He frequently warned against allowing bureaucracy to interfere with research, and he was proud of the fact that he never undertook any administration that might divert him from his research. How we still need his clear thinking on this. Perhaps universities would struggle less with their finances if this call were heard more clearly. Perhaps fewer researchers would find their grants at risk if ethics approval had not become such a tortuous process, extending way beyond independent ethics board consideration if any health component is included. In the 1970s, we started planning a journal that would bring together the scientific aspects of forensic psychiatry, criminology and forensic psychology. With David, one of us (J.G.) approached several publishers. Only Wiley was at all interested but they insisted on production first of two or three yearbooks—to prove that there was a market for such, to them, abstruse activities. This we did in 1995, one on Aggression and Dangerousness and another on Reactions to Crime: The Public, the Police, Courts and Prisons. Even then, Wiley turned down the idea of a journal. 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