Shared beginnings, divergent lives : delinquent boys to age 70 / John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson.

By:

Laub, John H

Contributor(s):

Sampson, Robert J, 1956-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.Description: 1 online resource (ix, 338 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780674039971
0674039971

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Shared beginnings, divergent lives.DDC classification:

364.36/0973 21

LOC classification:

HV9069 .L28 2003

Other classification:

71.65

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Contents:

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.

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Review: "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 the men's lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study to date of age, crime, and the life course." "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, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. The authors reject the idea of categorizing offenders to reveal etiologies of offending - rather, they connect variability in behavior to social context. They find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-331) and index.

"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 the men's lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study to date of age, crime, and the life course." "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, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. The authors reject the idea of categorizing offenders to reveal etiologies of offending - rather, they connect variability in behavior to social context. They find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community."--Jacket

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