Youth Pathways In and Out of Offending

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What are the two main approaches in criminology?
Across individual change and within individual change.
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Who found that family involvement in crime, neglectful parenting, poverty, high risk-taking behaviour and low school attainment to be strong factors in the onset of crime?
Farrington et al (2006)
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What did Brunton-Smith and McCarthy study in 2016?
Ages of onset for different crimes (both online and offline).
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What was the name of Glueck and Glueck's 1950 book?
Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency
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What were Glueck and Glueck's (1950) main findings?
The earlier the onset, the longer the offending career; crime declines with age; strongest factor for onset and continued offending was the family.
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Who studied whether crime is AL (adolescent limited) or LCP (life-course persistant)?
Moffitt, 1993
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Who came up with the 'Age Grade Theory'?
Sampson and Laub (2003)
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What were the main findings in the 'Age Grade Theory'?
That family factors mediate childhood risk factors and that offenders do not offend forever.
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What did Vaillant (1996) find about alcoholics?
That within 2 years, 45% relapsed. However, within 5 years, only 9% relapsed.
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What was Matza's (1964) theory of desistance?
Maturational reform.
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What did Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) say about desistance?
Offenders do not grow out of crime - their opportunity structure simply changes.
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What is desistance similar to, according to Laub, Nagin and Sampson (2003)
A pension.
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Blockland and Niewbeerta (2005) found that...
Work, marriage and children reduces offending in some groups - but not high level offenders.
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Who found that offending trajectories are more diverse for men than for women?
Francis et al (2004)
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Who found that crime declines with age, some types of offence can increase with age, the earlier the onset the longer the criminal career, and that offending does not have a linear trajectory?
Sampson and Laub (2001)
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