Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency

Herausgeber: Thornberry, Terence P

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Produktbeschreibung

In Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency , Terence P. Thornberry and his contributors show that criminal behavior is not a static human attribute, but ebbs and flows over the life course of the individual.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781138522282
• ISBN-10: 1138522287
• Artikelnr.: 50497931

Autorenporträt

Terence P. Thornberry

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Some Advantages of Developmental and Life-Course Perspectives
for the Study of Crime and Delinquency 1. Adolescence-Limited and
Life-Course-Persistent Offending: A Complementary Pair of Developmental
Theories 2. Life-Course Contingencies in the Development of Adolescent
Antisocial Behavior: A Matching Law Approach 3. Stability and Change in
Crime over the Life Course: A Strain Theory Explanation 4. A Life-Course
Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency 5. A
Symbolic Interactionist Theory of Role-Transitions, Role-Commitments, and
Delinquency 6. A Generic Control Theory of the Criminal Phenomenon: The
Structural and Dynamic Statements of an Integrative Multilayered Control
Theory 7. Crime and Capitalization: Toward a Developmental Theory of Street
Crime in America 8. Developmental Aspects of Adult Crime