Crime in the Making Pathways and Turning Points Through Life

Name: Crime in the Making Pathways and Turning Points Through Life
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ISBN: 9780674176058

ISBN-10: 0674176057

ISBN-13: 9780674176058

Edition: 1993

Authors: Robert J. Sampson, John H. Laub

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This new theory of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking criminal justice policy. It is based on the reanalysis of a classic set of data: Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents from childhood to adulthood. Several years ago, Robert Sampson and John Laub dusted off sixty cartons of the Gleucks' data that had been stored in the basement of the Harvard Law School and undertook a lengthy process of recoding, computerizing, and reanalyzing it. On the basis of their findings, they developed a theory of informal social control that acknowledges the importance of childhood behavior but rejects the implication…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

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

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



Introduction



Toward an Age-graded Theory of Informal Social Control



Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency and Follow-up Studies



Restoring, Supplementing, and Validating the Data



The Family Context of Juvenile Delinquency



The Role of School, Peers, and Siblings



Continuity in Behavior over Time



Adult Social Bonds and Change in Criminal Behavior



Comparative Models of Crime and Deviance



Exploring Life Histories



Summing Up and Looking Ahead


Appendix: Interview with the Gluecks' Original Research Staff


Notes


References


Index