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Annotated Further Readings: Life-Course and Developmental Theories of Crime

Catalano, Richard F., and J. David Hawkins: Social Development Model

Catalano, R. F., & Hawkins, J. D. (1996). The Social Development Model: A theory of antisocial behavior. In J. D. Hawkins (Ed.), Delinquency and crime: Current theories (pp. 149–197). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

This chapter provides a thorough overview of theoretical foundation and specific propositions contained in the theory. It is the definitive outline of the social development model by its developers.

Catalano, R. F., Park, J., Harachi, T. W., Haggerty, K. P., Abbott, R. D., & Hawkins, J. D. (2005). Mediating the effects of poverty, gender, individual characteristics, and external constraints on antisocial behavior: A test of the social development model and implications for developmental life course theory. In D. P. Farrington (Ed.), Integrated developmental and life-course theories of offending (Advances in Criminological Theory: Vol. 14, pp. 93–123). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

This book chapter provides an empirical examination of some key tenets of the social development model. It also responds to some broader questions surrounding integrated developmental and life-course theories of crime and delinquency.

Criminal Career Paradigm

Blumstein, A., Cohen, J., Roth, J. A., & Visher, C. A. (Eds.). (1986). Criminal careers and “career criminals” (Vol. 1: Report of the Panel on Criminal Careers, National Research Council). Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences.

This report provides an overview of the criminal career framework and discusses research on key dimensions as well as methodological and statistical issues.

Farrington, D. P. (2003). Developmental and life-course criminology: Key theoretical and empirical issues—the 2002 Sutherland award address. Criminology, 41, 221–255.

This article provides an overview of key life-course criminology facts and then theoretical explanations of them.

Laub, J. H., & Sampson, R. J. (2003). Shared beginnings, divergent lives: Delinquent boys to age 70. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

This resource consists of quantitative and qualitative data for the longest longitudinal study in the world tracking Boston-area delinquents until age 70.

Piquero, A. R., Farrington, D. P., & Blumstein, A. (2003). The criminal career paradigm. In M. Tonry (Ed.), Crime and justice: A review of research (Vol. 30, pp. 359–506). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

This study updates the Blumstein et al. (1986) report with new literature and issues on criminal career issues.

Farrington, David P.: The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential Theory

Farrington, D. P. (Ed.). (2005). Integrated developmental and life-course theories of offending (Advances in Criminological Theory: Vol. 14). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction.

In this edited book, David Farrington gathers some of the leading experts who, from their perspectives, present and elucidate their different developmental and life-course theories of offending, many of which were formulated in the last 20 years.

Flannery, D. J., Vazsonyi, A. T., & Waldman, I. D. (Eds.). (2007). The Cambridge handbook of violent behavior and aggression. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

In this edited book, Flannery, Vazsonyi, and Waldman present a comprehensive and multidisciplinary investigation of aggressive and violent behavior from international leading experts in the field. Many of the chapters constitute a developmental, biological, bio-genetics, and cultural analysis of the risk factors and mechanisms implicated in the origin of violent behavior over the life span.

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