David P. Farrington
David Farrington | |
|---|---|
| Born | 7 March 1944 Ormskirk, Lancashire, England |
| Died | 5 November 2024 (aged 80) |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Spouse |
Sally Chamberlain (m. 1966) |
| Children | 3 |
| Awards | Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2003) Stockholm Prize in Criminology (2013) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Criminology, psychology |
| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Continuity and discontinuity in verbal learning (1970) |
David Philip Farrington, OBE (7 March 1944 – 5 November 2024) was a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he was 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."