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Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life
Robert J. Sampson
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Paperback. Based on the re-analysis of Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from childhood to adulthood, this informal social control theory accepts the importance of childhood behaviour but rejects the idea that adult social factors have little relevance. Num Pages: 320 pages, 4 line illustrations, 43 tables. BIC Classification: JKVC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
This new explanation of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking contemporary theory and criminal justice policy. It is based on the reanalysis of a classic set of data: Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency, Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks’ mid-twentieth-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents from childhood to adulthood. Several years ago, Robert Sampson and John Laub dusted off sixty cartons of the Gleucks’ data that had been stored in the basement of the Harvard Law School. After a lengthy process of recoding and reanalyzing these data, they developed and tested a theory of informal social control that acknowledges the importance of childhood behavior but rejects the implication that adult social factors have little relevance.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674176058
SKU
V9780674176058
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About Robert J. Sampson
Robert J. Sampson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Harvard University. John H. Laub is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.
Reviews for Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points through Life
Imaginative and forthright, a well-argued book with broad theoretical and methodological implications.
John Modell
American Journal of Sociology
Crime in the Making deserves widespread attention.
Joan McCord
Contemporary Sociology
The book’s logical organization, the authors’ parsimonious explanation of key concepts and theoretical propositions, and the comprehensive presentation of their findings interact to produce a volume that possesses a high degree of clarity and readability… Crime in the Making should be read by all developmental criminologists and those interested in the study of criminal careers.
Douglas Yearwood
Criminologist
This book will be widely read and cited, and it deserves to be. [The authors] have carefully crafted a model which addresses both stability and change in delinquency and crime over the life course, and they have done an impeccable job of testing it.
Candace Kruttschnitt
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Hard-headed quantitative variable-oriented statistics are skillfully blended with qualitative person-oriented studies of individual life histories. A ‘must’ for anyone interested in either criminology or life-span development, and of great interest to a much wider group of readers. Crime in the Making is destined to become a classic.
Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London No previous work offers such a systematic and theoretically informed view of delinquent and criminal involvements from adolescence through adulthood.
John Hagan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Modell
American Journal of Sociology
Crime in the Making deserves widespread attention.
Joan McCord
Contemporary Sociology
The book’s logical organization, the authors’ parsimonious explanation of key concepts and theoretical propositions, and the comprehensive presentation of their findings interact to produce a volume that possesses a high degree of clarity and readability… Crime in the Making should be read by all developmental criminologists and those interested in the study of criminal careers.
Douglas Yearwood
Criminologist
This book will be widely read and cited, and it deserves to be. [The authors] have carefully crafted a model which addresses both stability and change in delinquency and crime over the life course, and they have done an impeccable job of testing it.
Candace Kruttschnitt
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Hard-headed quantitative variable-oriented statistics are skillfully blended with qualitative person-oriented studies of individual life histories. A ‘must’ for anyone interested in either criminology or life-span development, and of great interest to a much wider group of readers. Crime in the Making is destined to become a classic.
Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London No previous work offers such a systematic and theoretically informed view of delinquent and criminal involvements from adolescence through adulthood.
John Hagan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill