Researchers and policymakers from diverse fields are engaged in efforts to understand the
biological and social causes of obesity in order to develop policies, interventions, and …

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation
toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks …

Numerous studies have examined the postrelease behaviors of men and women,
highlighting the importance of social bonds in understanding positive reentry. However …

Desistance from offending is generally conceptualized as a process involving an interplay
between 'objective', or external factors, and 'subjective', or internal factors, with different …

Offender rehabilitation has become increasingly and almost exclusively associated with
structured cognitive-behavioural programmes. For fifty years, however, a small number of …

An impressive body of research has examined the effect of marriage on desistance from a
criminal career. Although extensive efforts have been made to control for potential …

Researchers often examine juvenile delinquency without considering the developmental
differences between early, middle, and late adolescence. Much research suggests that …

The goal of this chapter is to argue both that prisoner reentry research may be improved by
systematically drawing on life-course perspectives and, conversely, that life-course …

This research is sponsored by the US Department of Homeland Security's Science and
Technology Directorate and coordinated through the United Kingdom Home Office. The …

Judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and other professionals in the juvenile justice
system share a common task in working to prevent delinquency and recidivism. These …