The development of antisocial behavior and Crime : replication with the Montreal cross sectional and longitudinal studies / Marc Le Blanc.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

LeBlanc, Marc, 1943- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal behavior.

Developmental psychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Springer, [2021]

Summary:

This innovative and timely work explores how the developmental criminology paradigm can be applied to understandings beyond criminal careers, to the development of more general antisocial behavior. Importantly, the rich data set from 50-years of cross sectional and longitudinal studies provides replication amongst samples, genders, generations and phases in the life span, from cohorts born in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. This work also provides a rich history about the development of the "Developmental Criminology" paradigm, drawing from developmental psychology, and life-course methodologies in Sociology. With a 50-year, multigenerational longitudinal dataset (the Montreal Two Sample Four Generational Cross sectionnal and Longitudinal Studies -MTSFGCLS) the author explores the mechanisms of official and self-reported antisocial behavior. It provides insights into not only criminal behavior, but other types of potentially problematic behavior, including drug and alcohol use, risky sexual behavior, conflict with authority and other forms of antisocial behavior; as well as their decline across the life-course. By examining the developmental mechanisms and trajectories of these behaviors, the author proposes a multidisciplinary theory to explain these phenomenons. This work will be of interested to researchers in Criminology, Sociology and Psychology, particularly within the growing area of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology, as well as related fields such as social work, public health and public policy.

Contents:

Intro

Foreword

Preface

List of Abbreviations by Categories and Synonyms

Acknowledgements

Introduction

What Kind of Journey Will We Have?

Beyond Crime, Toward Antisocial Behavior

From an Epidemiological Perspective, Toward a Developmental View

From Replication to Reproducibility, Toward Generalizability and Universality

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

About the Author

Chapter 1: The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior and Crime: A Measurement View

1 Introduction

2 The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior

2.1 The Legal or Societal Construct of Antisocial Behavior

2.2 The Scientific Construct of Antisocial Behavior

3 The Measurement of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior

3.1 The Spectrum of Antisocial Behaviors

3.2 The Metric Properties of the SRAB Scales

3.2.1 The Reliability of the SRAB Scales

3.2.2 The Validity of the SRAB Scales

4 A Test of the Heteromorphy of Antisocial Behavior Measures

5 The Empirical Structure of the Antisocial Behavior Construct

5.1 The Theoretical Model, What Do We Know?

5.2 A Test of the Antisocial Behavior Theoretical Model

5.3 The Generalization of the Antisocial Behavior Hierarchical Model

5.4 A Network View of the Patterns of Antisocial Behavior

6 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Antisocial Behavior and Crime: An Epidemiological View

2 The Epidemiology of Official Antisocial Behavior and Crime Careers

2.1 The Official Offending Career

2.1.1 A Descriptive Statistic View

2.1.2 An Age-Crime Curve View

Measurement Issues with Official Offending Data Sets

The Shape of the Age-Crime Curve in the 1960 and 1980 Generations

The Variations of the Age-Crime Curves by Delinquency Status, Genders, and Types of Offending

2.2 The Official Problem Behavior Career.

3 The Epidemiology of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior

4 Conclusion

4.1 The Shape of the Age-Crime Curves

4.2 The Gender Gap

4.3 The Generation Gap

4.4 The Normative or Delinquent Status Gap

4.5 The Mix of Antisocial Behavior Gap

Chapter 3: The Developmental Mechanisms of Antisocial Behavior and Crime, a Process View

2 The Mechanism of the Quantitative Changes in Antisocial Behavior and Crime: Activation-Deactivation

2.1 The Quantitative Changes During an Official Offending Career

2.2 The Quantitative Changes During a Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Career

3 The Mechanism of Qualitative Changes in Antisocial Behavior and Crime: Aggravation-Deaggravation

3.1 Offenses Switching or Changes in Behavioral Mixes

3.2 Age at Onset-Offset Versus Seriousness

3.3 A Developmental Sequence or Pathway

3.4 The Qualitative Changes in Self-Reported Offending

3.5 The Qualitative Changes in Official Offense Mixes

3.5.1 The Sequence of Official Offense Mixes

3.5.2 The Uplifting and Downlifting of the Sequence of Official Offense Mixes

3.6 The Qualitative Changes in the Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Mixes

3.6.1 The Sequence of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Mixes

3.6.2 The Uplifting and Downlifting on the Sequence of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavioral Mixes

Chapter 4: The Antisocial Behavior and Crime Autodynamic, a System View

2 System Functioning, Principles, and Empirical Explorations

2.1 Theoretical Developmental Axioms of System Action

2.2 The MTSFGCLS Empirical Explorations

3 The Crime System Autodynamic

3.1 A Global Look at the Crime System

3.2 A Longitudinal Look at the Crime System

4 The Antisocial Behavior System

5 Conclusion

Chapter 5: A Course View of Antisocial Behavior and Crime

1 Introduction.

2 From Criminological Typologies to Behavioral Trajectories

2.1 The MTSFGCLS Typologies

2.2 The Loeber Pathways

2.3 The Cambridge Classification

2.4 The Moffitt Developmental Taxonomy

2.5 The Patterson Onset Trajectories

3 A Multilayered Trajectories Model of Antisocial Behavior and Crime

4 The MTSFGCLS Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior and Crime

4.1 The Official Crime Trajectories

4.1.1 The Number of Court Males and Shape of Micro-Trajectories

4.1.2 The Comparison of the G60 Trajectories with Other Long-Term Studies

4.1.3 The G60 Offending Trajectories by Types of Offenses

4.1.4 From a Meta-Trajectory to Micro-Courses Through Meso-Paths

4.2 The Self-Reported Official Crime Trajectories

4.3 The Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Trajectories

4.3.1 The Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Trajectories of the Court Males

4.3.2 The Females Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Trajectories

Chapter 6: Conclusion: A Journey from Exploration to Generalization and Formalization

1 How Should We Know About the Development of Antisocial Behavior?

1.1 The Future Research Design

1.2 Down the Road with Conceptualizations and Measurements

1.3 Future Replications

2 A Discursive and Axiomatic Theory of the Development of Antisocial Behavior

2.1 The Extrinsic Part of the Developmental Theory of Antisocial Behavior

2.1.1 Antisocial Behavior: Acts that Violate Social Norms and that Are Harmful to Others

2.1.2 The Antisocial Behaviors Manifest in Three Categories

2.1.3 The Career Developmental Parameters Are the Same for Official Crime and Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior (See Also Table 2.1)

2.2 The Intrinsic Content of the Developmental Theory of Female and Male Antisocial Behavior

2.2.1 A Gender Gap

2.2.2 A Normative Gap

2.2.3 A Generation Conundrum.

2.2.4 An Age-Antisocial Behavior Puzzle

2.2.5 The Developmental Mechanisms of Antisocial Behavior

2.2.6 Antisocial Behavior Is a Developmental System

2.2.7 The Life Course Trajectories of Antisocial Behavior

Appendix A: The Baseline and Replication Samples of the Montréal Two Samples Four Generations Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies

The Origins of the MTSFGCLS

The Baseline Samples of the 1970s

The Replication Samples of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s

Appendix B: The Measurement of Official and Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior and Crime

Official Offenses and Problem Behaviors

Self-Reported Crimes

Self-Reported Antisocial Behaviors

The Format of the Questions for Each Behavior

The List of Antisocial Behaviors

The Antisocial Behavior Scales

Appendix C: Legal, Criminal Justice, and Sociological Changes in Québec from 1960 to 2000

C.2. Changes in the Québec Criminal and Delinquency Laws and Their Criminal Justice Systems

C.3. Evolution of Juvenile and Adult Criminality Since 1960

C.4. Sociological Changes Over Five Decades in Québec and Montréal

C.4.1 Demography

C.4.3. Government

C.4.4. Family

C.4.5. Health

C.4.6. Education

C.4.7. Economy, Work, and Poverty

C.4.8. Consumption

C.5. Conclusion

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

3-030-68429-6

OCLC:

1268440863