Research Catalog

Title

Developmental theories of crime and delinquency / Terence P. Thornberry, editor.

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, c1997.

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Details

Additional Authors

Thornberry, Terence P.

Description

359 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Advances in criminological theory, 0894-2366 ; v. 7

Uniform Title

Advances in criminological theory v. 7.

Subject

• Juvenile delinquency
• Criminal behavior
• Criminology
• Juvenile Delinquency

Genre/Form

Aufsatzsammlung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : some advantages of developmental and life-course perspectives for the study of crime and delinquency / Terence P. Thornberry -- Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offending : a complementary pair of developmental theories / Terrie E. Moffitt -- Life-course contingencies in the development of adolescent antisocial behavior : a matching law approach / Rand D. Conger and Ronald L. Simons -- Stability and change in crime over the life course : a strain theory explanation / Robert Agnew -- A life-course theory of cumulative disadvantage and the stability of delinquency / Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub -- A symbolic interactionist theory of role-transitions, role-commitments, and delinquency / Ross L. Matsueda and Karen Heimer -- A generic control theory of the criminal phenomenon : the structural and dynamic statements of an integrative multilayered control theory / Marc Le Blanc -- Crime and capitalization : toward a developmental theory of street crime in America / John Hagan -- Developmental aspects of adult crime / Kenneth Adams -- "Setting the record straight" : a response to Hagan, Gillis and Simpson / Gary F. Jensen.

ISBN

1560001992

OCLC

• 36266329
• SCSB-10228346

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library