Full Description
Since its introduction in the latter half of the 1980s, the meticulous study of distinct criminal career dimensions, like onset, frequency, and crime mix, has yielded a wealth of information on the way crime develops over the life-span. Policymakers in turn have used this information in their efforts to tailor criminal justice interventions to be both effective and efficient. Life-course criminology studies the ways in which the criminal career is embedded in the totality of the individual life-course and seeks to clarify the causal mechanisms governing this process.
The Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology provides an authoritative collection of international theoretical and empirical research into the way that criminal behavior develops over the life-span, which causal mechanisms are involved in shaping this development, and to what degree criminal justice interventions are successful in redirecting offenders' criminal trajectories. Drawing upon qualitative and quantitative research this handbook covers theory, describes and compares criminal career patterns across different countries, tests current explanations of criminal development, and using cutting-edge methods, assesses the intended and unintended effects of formal interventions.
This book is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive overview of state-of-the-art developments in criminal career and life-course research, providing unique perspectives and exclusive local knowledge from over 50 international scholars. This book is an ideal companion for teachers and researchers engaged in the field of developmental and life-course criminology.
Contents
1. Taking stock of life-course criminology Part I: Theory 2. The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory: Empirical Testing 3. Human Agency: The Missing Element in Theories of Desistance 4. A Relational Perspective on Agency and the Desistance Process: A Reaction to Paternoster and Bachman 5. Situational Action Theory and PADS+: Theoretical and Methodological Advances in the Study of Life Course Criminology 6. Religion, Spirituality, and Desistance from Crime: Toward a Theory of Existential Identity Transformation Part II: Criminal Careers 7. Changing crime-mix patterns of offending over the life course: A comparative study in England and Wales and the Netherlands 8. Crime specialization as a dynamic process? Criminal careers, crime mix and crime specialization in chronic, serious and violent offenders 9. Comparing criminal careers across three national cohorts: Finland, Denmark and The Netherlands Part III: Onset and Continuation 10. Exploration and explanation of adolescent self-reported delinquency trajectories in the Crimoc study 11. Social and individual antecedents of adolescent-onset conduct problem behaviour 12. Trying to Make It Work: Change within Continuity in Offending during Early Adulthood 13. Risk Factors and Adulthood Adjustment Outcomes for Different Pathways of Crime: Key Findings from the Swedish IDA Program Part IV: Offending over the Life-Course 14. Changes in offending around official labor market entry: Vulnerable youths in transition to adulthood 15. To See the Fear in Their Eyes; Poses of Violence in Biography 16. Intergenerational Transmission of Crime: An International, Empirical Assessment Part V: Desistance from Offending 17. Offending and Offence Patterns in the Early Stages of Desistance: A Study of Young Men in England (18. The Transition to Adulthood and the Ambivalence of Desistance 19. Substance Abuse, Crime and the Life Course (20. Expanding Our Understanding of Women's Risk of Re-incarceration Part VI: Official Interventions 21. The past and future labour market careers of Dutch prisoners 22. The impact of imprisonment on IPV offenders' risks of recidivism: An application of two natural experiments in the city of Barcelona 23. 'Virtual' versus 'real' prison: which is best? Comparing the re-incarceration rates after electronic monitoring and imprisonment in Belgium 24. The Long-Term Impacts of Probation Supervision 25. Intergenerational continuity in incarceration: Evidence from a Dutch multi-generation cohort
