Sampson, Robert J., and John H. Laub: Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control

A debate over the significance of criminal careers dominated theoretical criminology, beginning in the mid-1980s. On one side, Alfred Blumstein et al. (1986, 1988a, 1988b) promoted a criminal career model to describe the volume of crime committed over an individual lifespan, ...

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