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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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Understanding the female offender.
TL;DR: It is concluded that female offenders are likely to require continued support long after their direct involvement with the juvenile justice system, and the most effective policies for reducing juvenile crime will be those that foster development in a safe and nurturing environment throughout childhood.
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age, social learning, and social bonding in adolescent substance use
Ronald L. Akers,Gang Lee +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, social learning and social bonding theories are used to account for the relationship of crime and delinquency to age, and the results support the hypothesis that age variations in marijuana use are mediated by age-related variations in social learning.
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Understanding Women's Pathways to Jail: Analysing the Lives of Incarcerated Women
TL;DR: The authors examined the life experiences of a sample of high-risk women to assess whether their offending pathways into jail are consistent with those predicted by earlier research, finding substantial overlaps with feminist pathways, but notable differences as well.
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Motherhood and criminal desistance in disadvantaged neighborhoods
TL;DR: The authors found that the transition to motherhood is associated with reductions in delinquency, marijuana, and alcohol behaviors, and that the effect of motherhood was larger than that of marriage for all outcomes.
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Learning from Attempts to Improve Schooling: The Contribution of Methodological Diversity
TL;DR: The authors argue that a focus on evaluating the effects of instructional interventions is entirely appropriate given current policy dilemmas, and randomized experiments are the gold standard for assessing these effects, but the success of the effort depends on a well-integrated, methodologically diverse research effort.