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Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes in offending and problem behaviors over time. Developmental studies in criminology focus on psychological factors that influence the onset and persistence of criminal behavior, while life-course studies analyze how changes in social arrangements, like marriage, education or social networks, can lead to changes in offending. Though each perspective is clearly concerned with patterns of offending and problem behavior over time, the literature on each is spread across various disciplines, including criminology & criminal justice, psychology, and sociology.
The Oxford Handbook on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology offers the first comprehensive survey of these two approaches together. Edited by three noted authorities in the field, the volume provides in-depth critical reviews of the development of offending, developmental and life-course theories, development correlates and risk/protective factors, life transitions and turning points, and effective developmental interventions from the world's leading scholars. In the first two sections, the contributors provide overviews of specific criminal career parameters, including age-crime curve, prevalence/frequency of offending, and co-offending, and review the main theoretical frameworks in the developmental and life-course criminology areas. They further summarize some of the empirical literature on known developmental correlates and risk/protective factors associated with longitudinal patterns of offending in the next section. The fourth section focuses on life transitions and turning points as they may relate to persistence in-or desistance from-criminal activity into adulthood, while the final section examines the genesis of antisocial, delinquent, and criminal activity, its maintenance, and its cessation.
A state of the art overview on the topic, this Handbook aims to be the most authoritative resource on all issues germane to developmental and life-course criminologists and provides next steps for further research.
List of contents
- Foreword by Francis T. Cullen
- Preface
- List of Contributors
- Section I: Introduction
- Chapter 1: Developmental and Life-course Criminology
- Lila Kazemian, David P. Farrington, and Alex R. Piquero
- Section II: The Development of Offending
- Chapter 2: Age and Crime
- Chester L. Britt
- Chapter 3: Age of Onset and Offending Behavior
- Elaine Eggleston Doherty and Sarah Bacon
- Chapter 4: Specialization and Versatility in Offending
- Paul Mazerolle and Samara McPhedran
- Chapter 5: Acceleration, Deceleration, Escalation, and De-escalation
- Wesley G. Jennings and Bryanna Hahn Fox
- Chapter 6: Persistence and Desistance
- Siyu Liu and Shawn D. Bushway
- Chapter 7: Trajectories of Criminal Behavior across the Life Course
- Julien Morizot
- Chapter 8: Co-offending
- Sarah B. van Mastrigt and Peter Carrington
- Section III: Developmental and Life-course Theories
- Chapter 9: The Developmental Taxonomy
- Tara Renae McGee and Terrie E. Moffitt
- Chapter 10: Developmental Pathways to Conduct Problems and Serious Forms of Delinquency
- Rolf Loeber
- Chapter 11: The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory: New Empirical Tests
- David P. Farrington and Tara Renae McGee
- Chapter 12: The Interconnected Development of Personal Controls and Antisocial Behavior
- Marc Le Blanc
- Chapter 13: The Social Development Model
- Christopher Cambron, Richard F. Catalano, and J. David Hawkins
- Chapter 14: Interactional Theory
- Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D. Krohn
- Chapter 15: The Dynamics of Change: Criminogenic Interactions and Life Course Patterns in Crime
- Per-Olof H. Wikstrom and Kyle Treiber
- Chapter 16: The Age-graded Theory of Informal Social Control
- John H. Laub, Zachary R. Rowan, and Robert J. Sampson
- Section IV: Developmental Correlates and Risk/Protective Factors
- Chapter 17: Biosocial Influences on Offending across the Life Course
- Olivia Choy, Jill Portnoy, Adrian Raine, Rheanna J. Remmel, Robert Schug, Catherine Tuvblad, and Yaling Yang
- Chapter 18: Personality and Other Individual Influences on Offending
- Darrick Jolliffe and David P. Farrington
- Chapter 19: Family Influences on Youth Offending
- Abigail A. Fagan and Kristen M. Benedini
- Chapter 20: Peer Influences on Offending
- Christopher J. Sullivan, Kristina K. Childs, and Shaun Gann
- Chapter 21: Schools and the Pathway to Crime
- Debra J. Pepler
- Chapter 22: Developmental Influences of Substance Use on Criminal Offending
- Helene
About the author
David P. Farrington is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at the University of Cambridge.
Lila Kazemian is Associate Professor of Criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Alex R. Piquero is Ashbel Smith Professor in the Program in Criminology at the School of Economic, Political and Policy Sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Summary
The Oxford Handbook on Developmental and Life-Course Criminology offers the first comprehensive look at these two approaches. Edited by noted authorities in the field, the Handbook aims to be the most authoritative resource on all issues germane to developmental and life-course criminologists from the world's leading scholars.
