Developmental theories of crime and delinquency
By: Terence P. Thornberry, editor.
Contributors: Thornberry, Terence P.
Series: Advances in criminological theory -- v. 7
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 359
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency; Criminal behavior; Criminology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : some advantages of developmental and life-course perspectives for the study of crime and delinquency / Terence P. Thornberry; title: Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offending : a complementary pair of developmental theories / Terrie E. Moffitt; title: Life-course contingencies in the development of adolescent antisocial behavior : a matching law approach / Rand D. Conger and Ronald L. Simons; title: Stability and change in crime over the life course : a strain theory explanation / Robert Agnew; title: A life-course theory of cumulative disadvantage and the stability of delinquency / Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub; title: A symbolic interactionist theory of role-transitions, role-commitments, and delinquency / Ross L. Matsueda and Karen Heimer; title: A generic control theory of the criminal phenomenon : the structural and dynamic statements of an integrative multilayered control theory / Marc Le Blanc; title: Crime and capitalization : toward a developmental theory of street crime in America / John Hagan; title: Developmental aspects of adult crime / Kenneth Adams; title: "Setting the record straight" : a response to Hagan, Gillis and Simpson / Gary F. Jensen.