Shared beginnings, divergent lives : delinquent boys to age 70 / John H. Laub, Robert J. Sampson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laub, John H., 1953-

Contributor:

Sampson, Robert J.

Herbert Arnold Speiser Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile delinquency--United States--Longitudinal studies.

Criminal behavior--United States--Longitudinal studies.

Criminal behavior.

United States.

Genre:

Longitudinal studies.

Physical Description:

ix, 338 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.

Summary:

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. 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. The authors' 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. Rather, they find that men who desisted from crime were rooted in structural routines and had strong social ties to family and community.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [313]-331) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Herbert Arnold Speiser Fund.

ISBN:

0674011910

OCLC:

52374127