Shared Beginnings, Divergent LivesHarvard University Press, 30.06.2009 - 350 Seiten 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 their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date. 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. By uniting life-history narratives with rigorous data analysis, the authors shed new light on long-term trajectories of crime and current policies of crime control. Table of Contents: Acknowledgments 1. Diverging Pathways of Troubled Boys Notes The accounts of individuals are quite riveting, and the book can be recommended strongly purely for the stories provided about diverse lives. However, the book is much, much more than that in terms of the serious challenge that the authors' findings and ideas present to some of the leading contemporary theories of both crime and development. A highly original and scholarly contribution of the highest quality. --Sir Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London ttitleShared Beginnings, Divergent Lives is an extraordinary work which shows the deep insights gained by studying the whole life course, beginning in childhood and ending in later life. With access to a rare data archive, the authors provide compelling evidence on the remarkably varied adult lives of teenage delinquents who grew up in low-income areas of Boston (born 1925-1935). The story behind these varied life paths and their consequences inspires fresh thinking about crime over the life course through models of life trajectories and vivid narratives that reveal the complexity of lives. --Glen H. Elder, Jr., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill This book redraws the landscape of developmental criminology that Laub and Sampson already have done so much to define, setting new standards and benchmarks along the way. The authors both provide new evidence for earlier conclusions and challenge prevailing assumptions and assertions, thereby reshaping the criminological research agenda for years to come. --John Hagan, Northwestern University |
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... Desistance ? 13 3 Explaining the Life Course of Crime 36 4 Finding the Men 61 5 Long - Term Trajectories of Crime 81 6 Why Some Offenders Stop 114 7 Why Some Offenders Persist 150 8 Zigzag Criminal Careers 196 9 Modeling Change in Crime ...
... criminal and deviant offending as a general process , with the goal of using both quantita- tive and qualitative data to explicate the pathways to persistent of- fending and desistance over the full life course.1 Crime in the Making and ...
... crime from childhood until age 70 requires the long - term strategy we have employed . Moreover , our results will show that the processes of persistent offending and desistance from crime are surprisingly robust across place and ...
... crime over the full life span , we assess competing explanations of persistent offending and criminal desistance to discover whether there are in fact unique devel- opmental trajectories as argued by Moffitt and others . We also pres ...
... offending and why others stop . Narratives help us unpack mechanisms that connect salient life events across the ... desistance from crime . To make sense of this literature , we develop a theoretical taxonomy of competing explanations of ...
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Explaining the Life Course of Crime | 36 |
Finding the Men | 61 |
LongTerm Trajectories of Crime | 81 |
Why Some Offenders Stop | 114 |
Why Some Offenders Persist | 150 |
Zigzag Criminal Careers | 196 |
Modeling Change in Crime | 250 |
Rethinking Lives in and out of Crime | 275 |
NOTES | 297 |
REFERENCES | 313 |
INDEX | 333 |
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Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives: Delinquent Boys to Age 70 John H. Laub,Robert J. Sampson Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2006 |