Theoretical and empirical research investigating victimization and offending has largely
been either 'victim-focused'or 'offender-focused.'This approach ignores the potential …

A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior:(a)
It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over …

Rationale Adolescents and young adults were identified internationally as a group with
potentially low compliance rates with public health measures aimed at curbing the spread of …

Ample experimental evidence shows that the stigma of a prison record reduces employment
opportunities (Pager, 2007). Yet background checks today uncover a much broader range of …

In recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so
dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen …

Denne presentasjonen er en introduksjon til Howard Saul Beckers bok Outsiders: Studies in
the sociology of deviance som ble utgitt første gang i bokform i 1963. Kapittel tre og fire i …

" This is the most important study ever written on motherhood and marriage among low-
income urban women. Edin and Kefalas's timely, engaging, and well-written book is a …

Social exclusion was manipulated by telling people that they would end up alone later in life
or that other participants had rejected them. These manipulations caused participants to …

Have the core discussion networks of Americans changed in the past two decades? In 1985,
the General Social Survey (GSS) collected the first nationally representative data on the …

Sociologists have increasingly emphasized “turningpoints” in explaining behavioral change
over the life course. Is work a turning point in the life course of criminal offenders? If …