[1] 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.
He was educated at Ormskirk Grammar School[4] and later at Cambridge, where he received his BA, MA, and PhD in psychology.
[2] From 1998 to 2016, he was an adjunct professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh's Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.
[2][8] Farrington also published on a number of related topics within the field of criminology, including crime and physical health; bullying; and offender profiling.
[11] In 2013, Farrington received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology for his work on early-life crime prevention programs.