Criminal Trajectories: A Developmental Perspective
David M. Day and Margit Wiesner
Abstract
This book is a nontechnical, accessible, scholarly volume about criminal trajectories within a developmental context. The book provides a comprehensive overview of criminal trajectories as a concept and methodology. It addresses the complexities, controversies, findings, and applications from the rich criminal trajectory literature. It synthesizes material from the current literature in a range of fields, including developmental psychology, developmental and life-course criminology, quantitative methods, and crime prevention, to illustrate the theoretical, empirical, and practical utility of c ... More
This book is a nontechnical, accessible, scholarly volume about criminal trajectories within a developmental context. The book provides a comprehensive overview of criminal trajectories as a concept and methodology. It addresses the complexities, controversies, findings, and applications from the rich criminal trajectory literature. It synthesizes material from the current literature in a range of fields, including developmental psychology, developmental and life-course criminology, quantitative methods, and crime prevention, to illustrate the theoretical, empirical, and practical utility of considering the heterogeneity underlying offender populations (i.e., of criminal trajectories) in the conceptualization, response to, and prevention of crime. Each chapter ends with suggested supplemental readings.
Keywords:
Criminal trajectory,
Development,
Criminology,
Longitudinal,
Life course
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781479880058 |
| Published to NYU Press Scholarship Online: January 2020 |
DOI:10.18574/nyu/9781479880058.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
David M. Day, author
Ryerson University
Margit Wiesner, author
University of Houston
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