The Termination of Criminal Careers

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Contents: Initial Explorations: A study of a delinquent community, John Barron Mays The effect of social environment upon former felons, Dietrich C. Reitzes Temporary and continuing delinquency, B.J. Knight and D.J. West An exploratory study of existing from criminal careers, Thomas Meisenhelder The short term careers of serious thieves, W. Gordon West Delinquency cessation and adolescent development: preliminary data, Edward P. Mulvey and John F. LaRosa. Commonly Observed Regularities: Early marriage and criminal tendency in males, B.J. Knight, S.G. Osborn and D.J. West Unemployment, school leaving and crime, David P. Farrington, Bernard Gallagher, Lynda Morley, Raymond J. St Ledger and Donald J. West The criminal career: estimates of the duration and frequency of crime commission, William Rhodes Delinquency: do the delinquents drop back in?, Kimberley L. Kempf Going straight: desistance from crime and life narratives of reform, Shadd Maruna. Desistance By Specific Offending Populations: The later stages of ordinary property offender careers, Neal Shover Growing focus on criminal careers, Constance Holden Initiation, escalation and desistance in juvenile offending and their correlates, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet van Kammen and David P. Farrington Getting out of the life: crime desistance by female street offenders, Deborah Baskin and Jeffrey Fagan Crime in the breaking: gender differences in desistance, Christopher Uggen and Candace Kruttschnitt. Theorising Desistance I - Rational Choice Models: Decisions to participate in and desist from 4 types of common delinquency: deterrence and the rational choice perspective, Raymond Paternoster Age differential expectations and crime desistance, Neal Shover and Carol Y. Thompson Earning prospects, matching effects and the decision to terminate a criminal career, Liliana E. Pezzin. Theorising Desistance II - the Life-Course Perspective: Adolescent-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behaviour: a developmental taxonomy, Terrie E. Moffitt Trajectories of change in criminal offending: good marriages and the desistance process, John H. Laub, Daniel S. Nagin and Robert J. Sampson Life-course transitions and desistance from crime, Mark Warr Structuration, human development and desistance from crime, Stephen Farrell and Benjamin Bowling Name index.