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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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Resilience as a dynamic concept.
TL;DR: Evidence on turning point effects associated with experiences that increase opportunities and enhance coping and Gene–environment interaction findings are considered, and it is noted that there is some evidence that the genetic influences concerns responsivity to all environments and not just bad ones.
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Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies
TL;DR: In this article, Bone shapes from a Paleopathology study were used to indicate arthritis in a criminal justice study and the Nondurable Goods Index was used to measure reaction time distributions.
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Understanding Why Crime Fell in the 1990s: Four Factors that Explain the Decline and Six that Do Not
TL;DR: In the 1990s, crime rates in the United States reached the lowest levels in 35 years as discussed by the authors. But crime rates did not follow a predictable pattern: they began to decline without warning, and experts predicted an explosion in crime in the early and mid 1990s.
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The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis
Machteld Hoeve,Judith Semon Dubas,Veroni I. Eichelsheim,Peter H. van der Laan,W.H. Smeenk,Jan Gerris +5 more
TL;DR: The strongest links were found for parental monitoring, psychological control, and negative aspects of support such as rejection and hostility, accounting for up to 11% of the variance in delinquency.
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Trajectories of change in criminal offending: Good marriages and the desistance process.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors draw an analogy between changes in criminal offending spurred by the formation of social bonds and an investment process, and show that desistance from crime is facilitated by the development of quality marital bonds and that this influence is gradual and cumulative over time.