This book has brought together a top-notch cast of contributors to explore the interconnections among delinquency, education, and employment. Through sophisticated data analysis and cutting-edge theoretical work, this book has the potential to make a significant contribution to what we know about how education and employment are linked to delinquency. Without a doubt, anyone seriously interested in understanding the development ... Read moreof delinquency needs to read this book and have it as a handy reference. Kevin Beaver, Florida State University, USA. This book greatly advances our knowledge about the transition from adolescence to adulthood and about relationships between school, work and offending. It contains very high quality research and should be of great interest to criminologists and social scientists all over the world. David P. Farrington, Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology and Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow, Cambridge University, UK. This volume offers a very important contribution to the area of life course Criminology. It includes unique and sophisticated studies on the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace in the Netherlands. Paul Nieuwbeerta, Professor of Criminology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. This volume makes a sterling contribution to life course criminology. It has a clear advantage in using various and complex datasets that cover different periods during the life course, thus providing a comprehensive understanding of the complex relation between offending and the transition from school to the workplace. Anders Nilsson, Professor of Criminology, Stockholm University, Sweden. Show Less