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Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach

Matt DeLisi; Kevin M. Beaver

©2014  
ISBN: 9781449681517
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In order to understand the perpetuance of crime, multiple influences in offenders’ lives must be considered. Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach, Second Edition explores criminal and anti-social behavior by examining important factors occurring at each stage of life. This collection of cutting-edge scholarship comprehensively covers life-course antisocial behavior ranging from prenatal factors, to childhood examples of disruptive behavior, delinquency, and adult crime. Diverse research from internationally recognized experts on criminal behavior brings readers towards a sharpened understanding of crime and the prevailing life-course approach.
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  • 24 pages
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    Chapter 1 Biosocial Bases of Antisocial Behavior
    Author: Yaling Yang; Yu Gao; Andrea Glenn; Melissa Peskin; Robert A. Schug; Adrian Raine

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  • 17 pages
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    Chapter 2 Prenatal and Perinatal Predictors of Antisocial
    Behavior: Review of Research and Interventions
    Author: Stephen G. Tibbetts

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    Chapter 3 Prenatal Insults and the Development of
    Persistent Criminal Behavior
    Author: John Paul Wright

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    Chapter 4 Developmental Neurobiology from Embryonic
    Neuron Migration to Adolescent Synaptic
    Pruning: Relevance for Antisocial Behavior
    Author: Anthony Walsh; Ilhong Yun

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    Chapter 5 The Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial
    Behavior: Parents, Genes, and Unsettling
    Realities
    Author: Brian B. Boutwell

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    Chapter 6 The Impact of Biosocial Criminology on Public
    Policy: Where Should We Go From Here?
    Author: J. C. Barnes

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    Chapter 7 The Heritability of Common Risk and Protective
    Factors to Crime and Delinquency
    Author: Kevin M. Beaver; Michael G. Vaughn; Matt DeLisi; John Paul Wright; Richard Wiebe; H. Harrington Cleveland; Anthony Walsh

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  • 16 pages
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    Chapter 8 General Strain Theory and Offending over
    the Life Course
    Author: Stephen W. Baron; Robert Agnew

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  • 16 pages
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    Chapter 9 Race, Ethnicity, Juvenile Offending, and
    Justice Court Responses
    Author: Michael J. Leiber; Jennifer H. Peck

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    Chapter 10 Media Violence and the Development of Aggressive
    Behavior
    Author: Edward L. Swing; Craig A. Anderson

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    Chapter 11 Substance Use Careers and Antisocial Behavior:
    A Biosocial Life-Course Perspective
    Author: Michael G. Vaughn; Brian E. Perron

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    Chapter 12 Developmental Trajectories of Exposure to
    Violence
    Author: Daniel J. Flannery; Manfred H. M. van Dulmen; Andrea D. Mata

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    Chapter 13 A Partial Test of Social Structure Social
    Learning: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Differential
    Association with Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency
    Author: Chris L. Gibson; Traci B. Poles; Ronald L. Akers

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  • 13 pages
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    Chapter 14 Timing Is Everything: Gangs, Gang Violence,
    and the Life Course
    Author: Scott H. Decker; David Pyrooz

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  • 15 pages
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    Chapter 15 Gangs and Antisocial Behavior: A Critique
    and Reformulation
    Author: Matt DeLisi

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  • 17 pages
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    Chapter 16 Developmental and Life-Course Criminology:
    Theories and Policy Implications
    Author: David P. Farrington

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  • 11 pages
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    Chapter 17 Self-Control Theory and Antisocial-Behavior
    Author: George E. Higgins; Margaret Mahoney

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    Chapter 18 Serial Crime: Psychology of Behavioral Consistency
    and Applications to Linking
    Author: C. Gabrielle Salfati

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    Chapter 19 Symbolic Interactionism and Crime in the
    Life Course
    Author: Jeffery T. Ulmer

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    Chapter 20 A “Good Lives” Approach to Rehabilitation
    Author: Edward Manier; Truce Ordoña; C. Robert Cloninger

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    Chapter 21 Never-Desisters: A Descriptive Study of
    the Life-Course – Persistent Offender
    Author: Matt DeLisi; Anna E. Kosloski; Alan J. Drury; Michael G. Vaughn; Kevin M. Beaver; Chad R. Trulson; John Paul Wright

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    Chapter 22 Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives
    on Men’s Partner – Directed Violence
    Author: Farnaz Kaighobadi; Todd K. Shackelford

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