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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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Self-control through emerging adulthood: instability, multidimensionality, and criminological significance
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess self-control theory's stability postulate using five waves of data from the Family and Community Health Study (FCHS) and explore whether the observed within-individual changes are associated with changes in crime net of overall age trends.
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Behaviour problems in childhood and stressors in early adult life. I. A 20 year follow-up of London school children
TL;DR: The research presented in this paper examined the relationship between the presence of childhood behaviour problems and the rate of life events and difficulties in early adult life using data from a 20 year follow-up study of a sample of inner London school children first studied when they were aged 10.
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‘I am the person now I was always meant to be’: Identity reconstruction and narrative reframing in therapeutic community prisons:
TL;DR: The authors explored desistance in process among serious offenders residing in democratic therapeutic communities and argued that offender rehabilitation in therapeutic communities involves a process of purposive and agentic reconstruction of identity and narrative reframing, so that a new and better person emerges whose attitudes and behaviours cohere with long-term desistance from crime.
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Changes in criminal offending around the time of job entry: a study of employment and desistance
TL;DR: In this paper, a sample of recidivist males who became employed during 2001-2006 (N = 783), smoothing spline regression techniques were used to model changes in criminal offending around the point of entry to stable employment.
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The correctional melting pot: Race, ethnicity, citizenship, and prison violence
Mark T. Berg,Matt DeLisi +1 more
TL;DR: Using a sample of 1,005 inmates from the southwestern U.S., this article explored racial, ethnic, and citizenship correlates among male and female prisoners and found that Hispanics and Native Americans were the most violent male prisoners, while African Americans and Native American were the more violent female inmates.