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| Preface | |
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| Introduction, Two Glimpses at the Career Criminal | |
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| The Life of Crime | |
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| Overview of the Book | |
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| Practitioner Approach | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Empirical Evidence of Career Criminals | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Historical Background of Career Criminals | |
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| Biographies and Typological Studies | |
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| The Modern Criminal Career Paradigm | |
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| International Contributions | |
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| Career Criminal Characteristics | |
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| Summary: The Universality of Career Criminals | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Developmental Theory and Its Application | |
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| Overview of Developmental Theory | |
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| Patterson's Coercion Theory | |
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| Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy | |
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| Sampson and Laub's Age-graded Theory of Informal Social Control and Cumulative Disadvantage | |
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| Thornberry's Interactional Theory | |
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| Social Development Model | |
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| Developmental Theory in Action: A Review of Some Successful Prevention Policies | |
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| Strategies that Help to Forestall Career Criminality | |
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| Summary | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Challenges Posed by Propensity Theory | |
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| Overview of Propensity Theories as they relate to Career Criminals | |
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| The Implicit and Explicit Role of Psychopathological Conditions | |
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| Wilson and Herrnstein's Crime and Human Nature | |
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| Gottfredson and Hirschi's A General Theory of Crime | |
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| The Gottfredson and Hirschi Critiques | |
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| Theoretical Challenges and Summary Issues | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Politics of Career Criminals | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Ethical Quandaries of Prediction | |
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| Media Portrayals of Career Criminals | |
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| The Criminological Significance of Career Criminals | |
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| The Sympathetic Life of Career Criminals | |
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| The Mercurial Criminal Justice System | |
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| Academics and Career Criminals | |
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| Constructing the Career Criminal | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| The Criminal Justice System and Career Criminals | |
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| Introduction and Overview | |
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| The Police and Career Criminals | |
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| The Courts and Career Criminals | |
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| Corrections and Career Criminals | |
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| Capital Punishment and Career Criminals | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| Conclusion, Do We Have the Will to Stop Career Criminals? | |
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| Overview | |
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| Prevention and the Conservative Compromise | |
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| Retributive Justice and the Liberal Compromise | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Endnotes | |
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| References | |