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 …

Little is known about the prevalence, frequency, onset, and criminal career duration of life-
course-persistent offenders (LCP), compared to adolescence-limited (AL) and late-onset …

In most states, the legal treatment of offenders changes dramatically when they reach their
18th birthday.(In some states, this transition occurs at ages 16, 17, or even 19; see Griffin …

Recessions lead to short-term job loss, lower happiness, and decreasing income levels.
There is growing evidence that workers who first join the labor market during economic …

Abstract The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) is a prospective
longitudinal study of 411 London males who were first assessed in 1961–1962 at age 8–9 …

Research on the stability of aggression tends to show patterns of continuity and to a lesser
extent discontinuity. In this study, we provide a review of research published in four specific …

This chapter focuses on offending in general, rather than on any particular type of offending.
It also reviews briefly some of the most important risk factors for the onset and prevalence of …

The article explores first-time adult-onset offending in cases of white-collar crime where the
crime occurs as a consequence of a breakdown, brought by negative life events, in the …

Purpose This paper aims to refine our understanding of life course offending patterns across
gender and race/ethnicity and to advance work in this area by examining how gender and …

To estimate trajectories of violence using a longitudinal sample of adolescents, considering
the effects of multiple domains of influences as differentiators between profiles of violent …