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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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The Life Course Perspective on Drug Use: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Drug Use Trajectories
TL;DR: The life course perspective offers an organizing framework for classifying varying drug use trajectories, identifying critical events and factors contributing to the persistence or change in drug use, analytically ordering events that occur during the life span, and determining contributory relationships.
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A longitudinal test of the effects of parenting and the stability of self-control: negative evidence for the general theory of crime*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether self-control fully mediates the effect of parenting on delinquency, and found that low selfcontrol is positively associated with involvement in delinquency.
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Collective Regulation of Adolescent Misbehavior: Validation Results from Eighty Chicago Neighborhoods
TL;DR: This article found that informal social control mediated 50% of the effect of residential stability on rates of adolescent delinquency, even after adjusting for prior levels of crime in the neighborhood, in Chicago.
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Emotions and Crime over the Life Course: A Neo- Meadian Perspective on Criminal Continuity and Change
TL;DR: In this article, a symbolic interactionist perspective on the emotions is presented that highlights their social character, forges links to cognitive processes, and suggests ways in which emotions influence long-term patterns of criminal involvement.
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Population Heterogeneity and State Dependence: State of the Evidence and Directions for Future Research
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors draw a connection between population heterogeneity and state dependence processes and extant criminologicaltheory and conclude that criminal conduct may be influenced by laterlife events.