The research examined focuses on antisocial behavior and later delinquency, early school behavior and delinquency, child abuse and delinquency, why some high-risk children subsequently engage in delinquency and others do not, and predicting career offenders from self-reported data. The critique of the studies considers methodological problems, the nature of serious and chronic delinquency, individual differences among delinquents, and labeling theory and the problem of false positives. Overall, the review concludes that although delinquency predictions are not perfect, they are sufficiently accurate to be taken seriously and used in practice. Efforts should be made to improve the accuracy of delinquency predictions, but such predictions can only produce despair unless effective treatment and intervention strategies are developed and applied for the identified children. 22 references.