Life Course Criminology - Criminological Theory - Lecture Slides, Slides of Criminology

Download Life Course Criminology - Criminological Theory - Lecture Slides and more Slides Criminology in PDF only on Docsity! Life-Course Criminology Age-Crime Relationship Stability and Change in Offending Docsity.com Arrest Rate Age at Arrest 10 20 30 40 50 4000 3,000 2,000 1,000 0 Property Crimes, peak age = 16 Violent Crimes, peak age = 18 The Age-Crime Relationship, 1997 Docsity.com Antisocial Behavior Is Stable • Correlation between past and future criminal behavior ranges from .6 to .7 (very strong) • Lee Robins- Studies of cohorts of males – Antisocial Personality as an adult virtually requires history of CASB • CASB as early as age 6 related to delinquency • More severe behavior has more stability – “Early onset delinquency” powerful indicator of stability Docsity.com But there is CHANGE • 1/2 of antisocial children are never arrested • The vast majority of delinquents desist as they enter adulthood (mid 20s) Docsity.com Explaining Stability and Change in Antisocial Behavior I • Social Selection (TRAIT) Explanation – Individuals posses a trait that is stable and criminogenic – Trait established early in life (before delinquency) – Explains stability, but change (desistance)? • If trait is stable, why do people desist from crime? Docsity.com Developmental Taxonomies • Developmental Taxonomy? – All offenders are not the same, all crime is not caused by the same causal forces – There are at least two unique “offending trajectories” present • One groups maybe very stable in their offending • Another might might have a brief delinquency career – Kids are on different offending trajectories for different reasons Docsity.com Review • Explaining Stability and Change – Why are some kids antisocial early in life? – Why is antisocial behavior so stable? – Why, amidst stability, is there so much change? • Trait vs. Cumulative Continuity • General vs. Taxonomic Docsity.com