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Shared beginnings, divergent lives : delinquent boys to age 70
John H. Laub,Robert J. Sampson +1 more
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Laub and Sampson as mentioned in this paper analyzed newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s and found that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community.Citations
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Obesity and Overweight
TL;DR: Overweight or obesity in adolescents has reache epidemic proportions in the USA and other industr alized countries and these conditions, although lumped together in research and in commentarie reflect adolescents’ being toward the heavier point a continuum that would range from underweight morbidly obese.
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Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments
TL;DR: Cumulative advantage is a general mechanism for inequality across any temporal process (e.g., life course, family generations) in which a favorable relative position becomes a resource that produces further relative gains as mentioned in this paper.
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Implications of resilience concepts for scientific understanding.
TL;DR: Five main implications stem from the research to date: resistance to hazards may derive from controlled exposure to risk (rather than its avoidance), and resilience may be constrained by biological programming or damaging effects of stress/adversity on neural structures.
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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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Life-course desisters? trajectories of crime among delinquent boys followed to age 70*
Robert J. Sampson,John H. Laub +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined trajectories of offending over the life course of delinquent boys followed from ages 7 to 70, concluding that desistance processes are at work even among active offenders and predicted life-course persisters.