The adult offending and school dropout nexus : a life course analysis / Weiwei Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, Weiwei, 1979-

Series:

Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education and crime--United States.

Education and crime.

High school dropouts--United States--Social conditions.

High school dropouts.

Criminals--United States.

Criminals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Liu establishes that high school graduation operates as a turning point in late adolescence in redirecting individuals' adult offending trajectories. High school graduation is individually experienced and especially beneficial to those at high risk of dropping out. It also redirects adult offending trajectories by opening opportunities for experiencing adulthood turning point such as employment and romantic relationships. Liu's work provides empirical support for life course criminology and expands our knowledge about turning points by emphasizing that these events may occur at different stage

Contents:

Introduction

Conceptualizing turning points

Conceptualizing high school graduation as a turning point

An empirical study of the graduation/dropout-offending relationship

Data used to assess the causal relationship between graduation/dropout and offending

Analytical methods to assess the graduation/dropout-offending relationship

Empirical results on the high school graduation/dropout-offending relationship

Reconciling the results with past findings on the graduation/ dropout-offending relationship

Implications for life course criminology and policy making

Looking into the future.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593326340

1593326343

OCLC:

822894256