The adult offending and school dropout nexus
Subtitle: a life course analysis
By: Weiwei Liu
Publisher: LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published: 2013
Place of publication: El Paso
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781593325206
Subjects: Education and crime; High school dropouts; Social conditions; Criminals
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-229) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Conceptualizing turning points; title: Conceptualizing high school graduation as a turning point; title: An empirical study of the graduation/dropout-offending relationship; title: Data used to assess the causal relationship between graduation/dropout and offending; title: Analytical methods to assess the graduation/dropout-offending relationship; title: Empirical results on the high school graduation/dropout-offending relationship; title: Reconciling the results with past findings on the graduation/ dropout-offending relationship; title: Implications for life course criminology and policy making; title: Looking into the future.