Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives Delinquent Boys to Age 70

Name: Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives Delinquent Boys to Age 70
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ISBN: 9780674019935

ISBN-10: 0674019938

ISBN-13: 9780674019935

Edition: 2003

Authors: John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson

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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,…

Book details

List price: $35.50
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

John H. Laub is Professor of Criminology, University of Maryland.

Robert J. Sampson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Harvard University.



Acknowledgments



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 Notes


References


Index