I am enormously grateful to the American Society of Criminology’s (ASC) Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology for bestowing this Lifetime Achievement Award. To me, this recognition means more than any accolade I have experienced during my career, because it signals that colleagues whose opinion matters most to me, you developmental criminologists, believe my work has been useful to you. Your approval is especially satisfying because, as I explained in my lecture at ASC2018, it took many submissions, rejections, and endless revisions and resubmissions, to secure a publication home for the paper of mine that you apparently like most and have cited most often. This was my 1993 essay on the distinction between life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offending (Moffitt 1993). There is a lesson here: If a paper of yours encounters rejection, do not give up, revise and revise again. Believe in your own ideas! At the Division’s David P. Farrington Annual Lecture at ASC in November 2018, the audience included many early-career criminologists. I tried to convey what research was like when I began working in criminology back in the 1980s as a student, and when I first wrote down my ideas about life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offending. The notion of developmental heterogeneity in criminal offending is part of our lexicon today; it has become part of the vernacular of criminology, at least in some quarters. Why was the idea so mysterious and fascinating back then? A university actually gave me academic tenure for writing about it! As one example, the self-report method of measuring delinquency was fairly new and we were all just learning that official police data only tap the tip of the iceberg of offending behavior. As another example, the age-crime curve was fairly novel, and we were all trying to explain its Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-020-00153-5

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生命历程犯罪研究的创新—ASC发展与生命历程犯罪学分部David P. Farrington讲座，2018年

我非常感谢美国犯罪学学会（ASC）的发展与生命过程犯罪学分会授予这一终身成就奖。对我而言，这种认可比我在职业生涯中获得的任何荣誉都重要，因为这表明对我来说最重要的同事，发展中的犯罪学家相信我的工作对您有用。您的批准尤其令人满意，因为正如我在ASC2018的演讲中所解释的那样，为确保您显然最喜欢并被引用次数最多的我的论文的出版地，它进行了许多提交，拒绝，无休止的修订和重新提交。这是我在1993年发表的关于一生中持久性行为与青春期限制性犯罪之间区别的论文（Moffitt，1993年）。这里有一个教训：如果您的论文遭到拒绝，请不要放弃，再次修改。相信自己的想法！在2018年11月ASC的该部门的David P.Farrington年度演讲中，听众包括许多早期犯罪学家。当我从1980年代开始从事犯罪学工作时，以及当我第一次写下有关生命过程持续性和青春期受限犯罪的想法时，我就试图传达研究的内容。当今，刑事犯罪中发展异质性的概念已成为我们词典的一部分；至少在某些方面，它已成为犯罪学的一部分。为什么当时的想法如此神秘而迷人呢？实际上，一所大学给我写论文的学术任期！举一个例子 自我报告的衡量违法行为的方法还很新，我们所有人都在学习，官方警察数据只是触犯了犯罪行为的冰山一角。再举一个例子，年龄-犯罪曲线相当新颖，我们都在试图解释其发展与生命过程犯罪学杂志https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-020-00153-5