Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide
information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops,
about risk and protective factors at different ages, and about the
effects of life events on the course of development. The main
intent of this volume is to advance knowledge about these theories
of offender behavior, many of which have been formulated only in
the last twenty years. It also aims to integrate knowledge about
individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community, and
situational influences on offender behavior, and to combine key
elements of earlier theories such as strain, social learning,
differential association, and control theory. Contributors Benjamin
B. Lahey and Irwin D. Waldman focus on antisocial propensity and
the importance of biological and individual factors. Alex R.
Piquero and Terrie E. Moffitt distinguish between
life-course-persistent and adolescent-limited offenders. David P.
Farrington presents the Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential
(ICAP) theory, which distinguishes between long-term and short-term
influences on antisocial potential. Richard F. Catalano, J. David
Hawkins, and their colleagues present an empirical test of the
Social Development Model (SDM). Marc Le Blanc proposes an
integrated multilayered control theory, in which criminal behavior
depends on bonding to society, psychological development, modeling,
and constraints. Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub hypothesize
that offending is inhibited by the strength of bonding to family,
peers, schools, and later adult social institutions such as
marriage and jobs. Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D. Krohn
propose an interactional theory, of antisocial behavior.Per-Olof H.
Witkstrom's developmental ecological action theory emphasizes the
importance of situational factors: opportunities cause temptation,
friction produces provocation, and monitoring and the risk of
sanctions have deterrent effects. This latest volume in the
distinguished Advances in Criminological Theory series continues to
add to the theoretical underpinnings of the field and will be
important to all collections of social science research on
criminology.
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