| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Diverging pathways of troubled boys -- Persistence or desistance? -- Explaining the life course of crime -- Finding the men -- Long-term trajectories of crime -- Why some offenders stop -- Why some offenders persist -- Zigzag criminal careers -- Modeling change in crime -- Rethinking lives in and out of crime |
| Summary |
"This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1950). Updating the men's lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study to date of age, crime, and the life course." "John Laub and Robert Sampson's long-term data, combined with in-depth interviews, defy the conventional wisdom that links individual traits such as poor verbal skills, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. The authors reject the idea of categorizing offenders to reveal etiologies of offending - rather, they connect variability in behavior to social context. They find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-331) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Description based on print version record; title from digital title page (viewed October 3, 2023) |
| Subject |
Juvenile delinquency.
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Juvenile delinquency -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
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Criminal behavior -- United States -- Longitudinal studies
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Juvenile Delinquency
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
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Criminal behavior
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Juvenile delinquency
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Jugendlicher Täter
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Längsschnittuntersuchung
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Jeugdcriminaliteit.
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Misdadigers.
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Levensloop.
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United States
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USA
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| Genre/Form |
Longitudinal studies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sampson, Robert J., 1956- author.
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| ISBN |
0674039971 |
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9780674039971 |
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