A new study brings up to date the stories of fifty men first encountered as boys in an American reform school in the 1950s. Laurie Taylor meets Professor John Laub to find out what the boys subsequent biographies have to tell us about a widely accepted linkage between juvenile offending and long-term criminal careers. Additional information: Professor John H. Laub Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives Delinquent Boys to Age 70 John H. Laub and Robert J. Sampson Harvard University Press ISBN 0674011910 Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub Harvard University Press ISBN 0674176057 Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck Harvard University Press ISBN 0674930304 Delinquents and Non delinquents in Perspective Sheldon Glueck and Eleanor Glueck Oxford University Press ISBN 019626491X