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Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) and opens up new possibilities for the future of DLC research, orienting the DLC field as one that prioritises the achievement of better outcomes for individuals and society.
List of contents
1. Introduction 2. Linked Administrative Data: Providing Unique Solutions to Key Challenges in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology 3. Challenges and Opportunities to Generate High-Quality Evidence to Inform Youth Crime Prevention and Reduction 4. Within-Person Change and Theories of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology 5. How to Work With Visual Artists to Move Developmental and Life-Course Criminology Forward 6. The Life Event Calendar Methodology: Challenges and Considerations for DLC Research 7. ‘Life History Research’ with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples: How Indigenous Methodologies Inform Culturally Appropriate Research 8. Rumbles Quest: A Digital Game-Based Assessment of Social and Emotional Wellbeing in Middle Childhood 9. Knowledge Brokers as Agents for Change: The Role of Lived Experience and Translational Research in Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Offending 10. The Implications of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) Research in the Treatment and Prevention of Offending Behaviour: Hype or Hope? 11. Trauma-Informed Sentencing of Adults Who Are Life-Course Persistent Offenders 12. Understanding Pathways to Inform Prevention: A Program of Research on Child Maltreatment and Youth Offending Behaviour 13. Why Exploring the Interplay of Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour Matters for Developmental and Life-Course Criminology and for Strengths-Based Developmental Crime Prevention 14. Building Capacity for Sustainable, Scalable, Place-Based Youth Crime Prevention 15. Commentary: Developmental and Life-Course Criminology Has Come of Age!
About the author
Catia Malvaso is a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Public Health and School of Psychology at the University of Adelaide.
Tara Renae McGee is a Professor in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Griffith University and is the Deputy Director of the Transforming Corrections to Transform Lives (TCTL) Centre.
Ross Homel is a Foundation Professor of Criminology at Griffith University.
Summary
Frontiers in Developmental and Life-Course Criminology advances the field of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) and opens up new possibilities for the future of DLC research, orienting the DLC field as one that prioritises the achievement of better outcomes for individuals and society.
