Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach

In order to understand the perpetuance of crime, multiple influences in offenders#146; lives must be considered. Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach, Second Edition explores criminal and anti-social behavior by examining important factors occurring at each stage of life. This collection of cutting-edge scholarship comprehensively covers life-course antisocial behavior ranging from prenatal factors, to childhood examples of disruptive behavior, delinquency, and adult crime. Diverse research from internationally recognized experts on criminal behavior brings readers towards a sharpened understanding of crime and the prevailing life-course approach.

PartOne Aggression (Prenatal and Childhood)
Chapter1 Biosocial Bases of Antisocial Behavior
Chapter2 Prenatal and Perinatal Predictors of Antisocial Behavior: Review of Research and Interventions
Chapter3 Prenatal Insults and the Development of Persistent Criminal Behavior
Chapter4 Developmental Neurobiology from Embryonic Neuron Migration to Adolescent Synaptic Pruning: Relevance for Antisocial Behavior
Chapter5 The Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior: Parents, Genes, and Unsettling Realities
Chapter6 The Impact of Biosocial Criminology on Public Policy: Where Should We Go From Here?
Chapter7 The Heritability of Common Risk and Protective Factors to Crime and Delinquency
PartTwo Delinquency (Adolescence and Early Adulthood)
Chapter8 General Strain Theory and Offending over the Life Course
Chapter9 Race, Ethnicity, Juvenile Offending, and Justice Court Responses
Chapter10 Media Violence and the Development of Aggressive Behavior
Chapter11 Substance Use Careers and Antisocial Behavior: A Biosocial Life-Course Perspective
Chapter12 Developmental Trajectories of Exposure to Violence
Chapter13 A Partial Test of Social Structure Social Learning: Neighborhood Disadvantage, Differential Association with Delinquent Peers, and Delinquency
Chapter14 Timing Is Everything: Gangs, Gang Violence, and the Life Course
Chapter15 Gangs and Antisocial Behavior: A Critique and Reformulation
PartThree Crime (Adulthood)
Chapter16 Developmental and Life-­Course Criminology: Theories and Policy Implications
Chapter17 Self-­Control Theory and Antisocial ­Behavior
Chapter18 Serial Crime: Psychology of Behavioral Consistency and Applications to Linking
Chapter19 Symbolic Interactionism and Crime in the Life Course
Chapter20 A "Good Lives" Approach to ­Rehabilitation
Chapter21 Never­-Desisters: A Descriptive Study of the Life­Course- Persistent Offender
Chapter22 Evolutionary Psychological Perspectives on Men's Partner-­Directed Violence