Rolf Loeber

Rolf Loeber, who lived from 1942 to 2017, was a Dutch-American psychologist and criminologist who served from 1984 until his death as Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, Psychology and Epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, alongside a professorship in juvenile delinquency and social development at the Free University of Amsterdam. He specialized in the study of juvenile delinquency, and together with his wife Magda Stouthamer-Loeber he co-founded and co-directed the University of Pittsburgh's Life History Studies Program, which traces the developmental pathways that lead young people into criminal behavior.