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LIFE-COURSE TRAJECTORIES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF OFFENDERS.
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Criminology . Feb95, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p111-139. 29p. 1 Diagram, 10 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 1995
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Abstract
- The point of departure for this paper is Nagin and Land (1993), who identified four distinctive offending trajectories in a sample of 403 British males--a group without any convictions, "adolescence-limiteds," "high-level chronics," and "low-level chronics." We build upon that study with a detailed analysis of the distinguishing individual characteristics, behaviors, and social circumstances from ages 10 through 32 of these four groups. The most salient findings concern the adolescence-limiteds. By age 32 the work records of the adolescence-limiteds were indistinguishable from the never-convicted and substantially better than those of the chronic offenders. The adolescence-limiteds also seem to have established better relationships with their spouses than the chronics. The seeming reformation of the adolescence-limiteds, however, was less than complete. They continued to drink heavily and use drugs, get into fights, and commit criminal acts (according to self-reports). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CRIME
*CRIMINALS
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*HUMAN behavior
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00111384
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Criminology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 9503021740
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1995.tb01173.x