PURPOSE: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the
current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011 …

States have increasingly subject juvenile sexual offenders to sex offender registration and
commitment under sexual predator laws in recent years. These statutes assume that sexual …

Criminal careers have long occupied the imaginations of criminologists. Since the 1986
publication of the National Academy of Sciences report on criminal careers and career …

CRJU 3400 Juvenile Delinquency and Justice [Term] Page 1 CRJU 3400 Juvenile Delinquency
and Justice [Term] [Instructor Name] [Institution name] [Institution address] Phone number: (xxx) …

Two themes, coercion and social support, have emerged over the past two decades in
criminology that can be used to build a new integrated theory of crime. The authors provide …

In this volume, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings
of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior. Violence …

In recent years, the growing literature on the topic of desistance from crime and deviant
behavior has generated a large body of knowledge on this dimension of the criminal career …

Recipient of the 2024 Textbook & Academic Authors Association (TAA) McGuffey Longevity
Award This award recognizes textbooks and learning materials that have demonstrated …

Society's efforts to deter crime with punishment may be ineffective because those individuals
most prone to commit crime often act impulsively, with little thought for the future, and so they …

Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime contends that low self-control interacts
with opportunity to produce criminal and analogous behaviors. Although several theoretical …