Question 1

How does the life course paradigm explain onset, continuance, and desistance from offending?

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Question 2

Name three challenges life course persistent offenders experience that are believed to contribute to their criminal behavior. Why are these challenges precursors to criminality? Can they be addressed/altered to reduce risk?

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Question 3

What is the difference between a career criminal and a criminal career? Are they mutually exclusive or is there some overlap?

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Question 4

Assess the viability of Thornberry's Interactional Theory. Does it have the attributes of a good theory? Describe an empirical test of this theory.

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Question 5

What are the turning points and transitions in Sampson and Laub's age-graded theory of informal social control? How do they differ, and what is their role in criminal offending onset and desistance?

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Question 6

What is selective incapacitation and which perspective supports its use? What are the arguments against selective incapacitation?

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Question 7

Describe Tremblay's perspective on the development of physical aggression. How does this mirror the age-crime curve argument?

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Question 8

Is the developmental perspective an individual theory, or a way to frame our understanding of existing theories?

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Question 9

What is the role of agency in desistance from crime? Can agency also explain criminal behavior?

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Question 10

How are Sampson and Laub's age-graded informal social control theory and Hirschi's social bond theory similar? How are they different? Which one is a better explanation of criminal behavior? Why?

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Quiz 14: Developmental and Life-Course Theories