Desistance from Crime -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Jack -- Edward -- Why Do We Need a Book on Desistance? -- Plan of the Book -- 2 Desistance in Perspective: Historical Work and the Identification of a Field of Study -- A Murder and a Debate about Crime over the Life-Course -- An Overview of Early Research on Age and Crime -- Adolphe Quetelet and the Influence of Age -- G. Stanley Hall's Adolescence: Birth of a New Field of Study -- Criminological Views of the Age-Effect in the Early Twentieth Century -- The Gluecks: Maturation and Behavioral Reform -- Studies of Behavioral Reform in the Mid to Late Twentieth Century -- Early Theoretical Accounts of the Age-Crime Curve and Desistance -- When Did the Term 'Desistance' Emerge? -- Summary and Conclusion -- 3 Desistance under the Microscope: The Definition and Measurement of Desistance in Modern Criminology -- Definition and Measurement: Central Aspects of Life and Social Science -- The Age-Crime Curve and Desistance: What Does It Tell Us? -- A Collection of Definitions of Desistance -- Expanding the Definition and Measurement of Desistance -- Steps toward Desistance: Stages of Behavioral Reform -- Analytical/Measurement Issues: Desistance as a Process -- Quantitative vs. Qualitative Research and Desistance -- Consequences of a Lack of Measurement/Analytic Agreement -- Conclusion: Definitions and Measurement Matter -- 4 What Do We Know? Longitudinal Studies and Correlates of Desistance -- Major Longitudinal Studies Examining Desistance -- The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development -- Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health & Development Study -- The Montreal Two Sample Longitudinal Study -- National Youth Survey -- National Longitudinal Survey of Youth -- Add Health -- Ohio Life-Course Study -- PYS/DYS/RYDS -- Pathways to Desistance

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Serie / Reihe: Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory Palgrave's Frontiers in Criminology Theory Ser

Personen: Rocque, Michael Michael Rocque

Schlagwörter: Sozialwissenschaften Kriminologie Strafrecht