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Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life.
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This article is published in Social Forces.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 3835 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social control theory.read more
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Bidirectional Links and Concurrent Development of Parent-Child Relationships and Boys’ Offending Behavior
TL;DR: Although parent-child relationships improved during childhood, their quality decreased in early adolescence and remained stable in middle adolescence, indicating that stronger increases in delinquency were associated with stronger decreases in parent- child relationship quality across childhood, early adolescence, and middle adolescence.
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How Work Affects Crime—And Crime Affects Work—Over The Life Course
Sarah Lageson,Christopher Uggen +1 more
TL;DR: The meaning and social significance of both work and crime change dramatically over the life course as discussed by the authors, and the connection between employment and criminal behavior at different life-course stages is discussed.
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Punishing dangerousness through preventive detention: illustrating the institutional link between school and prison.
TL;DR: Evidence-based observations of how the juvenile justice and educational systems can work together more effectively are presented.
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Juvenility and punishment: sentencing juveniles in adult criminal court*
TL;DR: This article found that even after rigorous statistical matching procedures, juvenile offenders are punished more severely than their young adult counterparts and no evidence that this "juvenile penalty" is exacerbated by an offender's race or gender, but it does vary starkly across offense type and mode of transfer.
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Defiance Theory and Life Course Explanations of Persistent Offending
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an empirical assessment of defiance theory in the context of the life-course perspective, using data from the 1945 Philadelphia birth Cohort and the results yield promising support for the theory.