Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
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Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives

Delinquent Boys to Age 70

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eBook - PDF

Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives

Delinquent Boys to Age 70

About this book

This book analyzes newly collected data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were remanded to reform school in the 1940s. Born in Boston in the late 1920s and early 1930s, these men were the subjects of the classic study Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck (1950). Updating their lives at the close of the twentieth century, and connecting their adult experiences to childhood, this book is arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date.

John Laub and Robert Sampson's long-term data, combined with in-depth interviews, defy the conventional wisdom that links individual traits such as poor verbal skills, limited self-control, and difficult temperament to long-term trajectories of offending. The authors reject the idea of categorizing offenders to reveal etiologies of offending--rather, they connect variability in behavior to social context. They find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community.

By uniting life-history narratives with rigorous data analysis, the authors shed new light on long-term trajectories of crime and current policies of crime control.

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to
age
70.
This
quantitative
focus
on
turning
points
complements
our
qualitative
focus
in
Chapters
6–8
and
integrates
these
diverse
data
sources
in
a
unique
fashion.
In
Chapter
10
we
conclude
with
a
synthesis
of
our
major
findings
and
discussion
of
the
implications
of
our
study
for
understanding
the
life
course.
In
particular,
we
articulate
how
our
work
challenges
a
number
of
current
conceptions
in
criminological
theory,
research,
and
policy,
along
with
human
development
more
generally.
As
Block
(1971)
has
shown
so
well,
studying
lives
through
time
is
a
messy
af-
fair
fraught
with
methodological
and
theoretical
challenges.
Never-
theless,
we
believe
our
end
result
is
ultimately
rewarding
both
for
the
individuals
involved
as
participants
and
for
a
better
appreciation
of
the
human
complexity
of
crime
and
of
growing
old.
12
•
Diverging
Pathways
of
Troubled
Boys

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1 Diverging Pathways of Troubled Boys
  4. 2 Persistence or Desistance?
  5. 3 Explaining the Life Course of Crime
  6. 4 Finding the Men
  7. 5 Long-Term Trajectories of Crime
  8. 6 Why Some Offenders Stop
  9. 7 Why Some Offenders Persist
  10. 8 Zigzag Criminal Careers
  11. 9 Modeling Change in Crime
  12. 10 Rethinking Lives in and out of Crime
  13. Notes
  14. References
  15. Index