ABSTRACT
Typology development set the stage for an investigation of how the behavioral content of some offender types when considered in their social context or societal setting might provide the cement for important delinquency/crime linkages or be the catalyst for continuity in delinquent or criminal careers. The distribution of offense types in the first set of columns reveals that 84.2% fell in drug offender types as juveniles but only 12.3% did so as adults. Most of those fifty-seven who had police contacts for drug offenses as juveniles and who were classified as juvenile drug-offender types based on their pattern of juvenile police contacts must, as adults, have had relatively less drug activity, not have had police contacts for their drug activity, or were, in a few cases, in a more serious offender type. There was considerable desistance from the most serious to less serious offender types.
