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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 enduring effects of cohort characteristics on age-specific homicide rates, 1960-1995.
TL;DR: These changes in youth homicide rates are associated with two cohort characteristics that are theoretically linked to criminality: relative size of cohorts and the percentage of cohort members born to unwed mothers, which can explain fluctuations in homicide arrest rates before the recent upturn.
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Transformative agency and desistance from crime
TL;DR: In this paper, human agency is conceptualized as a transformative aspect of desistance from crime, and it is argued that existing conceptualizations of agency are vague or undirected.
Old Criminal Records and Predictions of Future Criminal Involvement
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used police contact data from the 1942 Racine birth cohort study to determine whether individuals whose last criminal record occurred many years ago exhibit a higher risk of acquiring future criminal records than do individuals with no criminal record at all.
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Desistance-Focused Criminal Justice Policy Research: Introduction to a Special Issue on Desistance from Crime and Public Policy
Stephen Farrall,Shadd Maruna +1 more
TL;DR: From a very small base of empirical studies in the 1940s and 1950s, the literature on how and why people stop offending has grown rapidly in the last two decades.