The Termination of Criminal Careers

by Farrall,Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780754620853
• ISBN10: 0754620859
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-06-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Recent years have witnessed an increase in the attention given to the later stages of criminal careers. Research upon this topic has charted the main factors associated with the termination of criminal careers, outlined some of the possible reasons behind these relationships and started to develop theoretical explanations for such relationships. Collected together for the first time are some of the most important contributions to this field of research. The collection focuses upon the initial explorations into this topic, the most commonly observed findings, the cessation of offending by specific offender-types and theoretical matters. An introductory essay by the editor provides a thorough overview of the work in this area and highlights the reasons why the termination of criminal careers will become increasingly important to criminologists and criminal justice policy makers alike.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
Series Preface	ix
Introduction	xi
PART I INITIAL EXPLORATIONS
`A Study of a Delinquent Community', British Journal of Delinquency, 3, pp 5--19.	3	(16)
John Barron Mays
`The Effect of Social Environment upon Former Felons', Journal of Criminal Law, Criminology and Police Science, 46, pp. 226--31	19	(6)
Dietrich C. Reitzes
`Temporary and Continuing Delinquency', British Journal of Criminology, 15, pp. 43--50	25	(8)
B.J. Knight
D.J. West
`An Exploratory Study of Exiting From Criminal Careers', Criminology, 15, pp. 319--34	33	(16)
Thomas Meisenhelder
`The Short Term Careers of Serious Thieves', Canadian Journal of Criminology, 20, pp. 169--90	49	(22)
W. Gordon West
`Delinquency Cessation and Adolescent Development: Preliminary Data', American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 56, pp. 212--24	71	(16)
Edward P. Mulvey
John F. LaRosa
PART II COMMONLY OBSERVED REGULARITIES
`Early Marriage and Criminal Tendency in Males', British Journal of Criminology, 17, pp. 348--60	87	(14)
B.J. Knight
S.G. Osborn
D.J. West
`Unemployment, School Leaving, and Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 26, pp. 335--56	101	(22)
David P. Farrington
Bernard Gallagher
Lynda Morley
Rayond J. St. Ledger
Donald J. West
`The Criminal Career: Estimates of the Duration and Frequency of Crime Commission', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 5, pp. 3--32	123	(30)
William Rhodes
`Delinquency: Do The Dropouts Drop Back In?', Youth and Society, 20, pp. 269--89	153	(22)
Kimberly L. Kempf
`Going Straight: Desistance From Crime and Life Narratives of Reform', The Narrative Study of Lives, 5, pp. 59--93	175	(38)
Shadd Maruna
PART III DESISTANCE BY SPECIFIC OFFENDING POPULATIONS
`The Later Stages of Ordinary Property Offender Careers', Social Problems, 31, pp. 208--18	213	(12)
Neal Shover
`Growing Focus on Criminal Careers', Science, 233, pp. 1377--78	225	(2)
Constance Holden
`Initiation, Escalation and Desistance in Juvenile Offending and their Correlates', Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 82, pp. 36--82	227	(48)
Rolf Loeber
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber
Welmoet Van Kammen
David P. Farrington
`Getting Out of the Life: Crime Desistance by Female Street Offenders', Deviant Behavior, 15, pp. 125--49	275	(26)
Ira Sommers
Deborah R. Baskin
Jeffrey Fagan
`Crime in the Breaking: Gender Differences in Desistance', Law & Society Review, 32, pp. 339--66	301	(30)
Christopher Uggen
Candace Kruttschnitt
PART IV THEORIZING DESISTANCE I: RATIONAL CHOICE MODELS
`Decisions to Participate in and Desist from Four Types of Common Delinquency: Deterrence and the Rational Choice Perspective', Law & Society Review, 23, pp. 7--40	331	(34)
Raymond Paternoster
`Age, Differential Expectations, and Crime Desistance', Criminology, 30, pp. 89--104	365	(16)
Neal Shover
Carol Y. Thompson
`Earning Prospects, Matching Effects, and the Decision to Terminate a Criminal Career', Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 11, pp. 29--50	381	(24)
Liliana E. Pezzin
PART V THEORIZING DESISTANCE II: THE LIFE-COURSE PERSPECTIVE
`Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy', Psychological Review, 100, pp. 674--701	405	(28)
Terrie E. Moffitt
`Trajectories of Change in Criminal Offending: Good Marriages and the Desistance Process', American Sociological Review, 63, pp. 225--38	433	(14)
John H. Laub
Daniel S. Nagin
Robert J. Sampson
`Life-Course Transitions and Desistance from Crime', Criminology, 36, pp. 183--216	447	(34)
Mark Warr
`Structuration, Human Development and Desistance from Crime', British Journal of Criminology, 39, pp. 253--68	481	(16)
Stephen Farrall
Benjamin Bowling
Name Index	497