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Print Price: $79.95

Format:
Hardback
384 pp.
20 line illustrations, 6 1/8" x 9 1/4"

ISBN-13:
9780195310313

Publication date:
February 2009

Imprint: OUP US


The Development of Persistent Criminality

Joanne Savage

The Development of Persistent Criminality addresses one of the most pressing problems of modern criminology: Why do some individuals become chronic, persistent offenders? Because chronic offenders are responsible for the majority of serious crimes committed, understanding which individuals will become chronic offenders is an important step in helping us develop interventions. This volume bridges the gap between the criminological literature, which has recently focused on the existence of various criminal trajectories, and the developmental psychology literature, which has focused on risk factors for conduct problems and delinquency. In it, chapters by some of the most widely published authors in this area unite to contribute to a knowledge base which will be the next major milestone in the field of criminology. The authors of this volume represent a unique gathering of international, interdisciplinary social problem so that we can prevent the enormous human and economic costs associated with serious crimes, these authors share their insights and findings on topics such as families and parenting, poverty, stressful life events, social support, biology and genetics, early onset, foster care, educational programs for juvenile offenders, deterrence, and chronic offending among females. Significant attention is paid throughout to longitudinal studies of offending. Several authors also share new theoretical approaches to understanding persistence and chronicity in offending, including an expansion of the conceptualization of the etiology of self-control, a discussion of offender resistance to social control, a dynamic developmental systems approach to understanding offending in young adulthood, and the application of Wikström's situational action theory to persistent offending.

1. Joanne Savage: Understanding Persistent Offending: Linking Developmental Psychology with Research on the Criminal Career
Section 1: The Family, Poverty, and Stressful Life Events
2. Linda S. Pagani: The Influence of Family Context on the Development and Persistence of Antisocial Behavior
3. Carter Hay and Walter Forrest: The Implications of Family Poverty for a Pattern of Persistent Offending
4. Stephanie Ellis and Joanne Savage: Strain, Social Support, and Persistent Criminality
5. Timothy O. Ireland, Craig J. Rivera and John P. Hoffman: Developmental Trajectories, Stressful Life Events, and Delinquency
6. Paul Millar: The Effects of the Family on Children's Behavioural Difficulties
Section 2: Biosocial Influences on Persistent Criminality
7. Patick Sylvers, Stacy R. Ryan, S. Amanda Alden, and Patricia A. Brennan: Biological Factors and the Development of Persistent Criminality
8. John Paul Wright and Kevin M. Beaver: A Systematic Approach to Understanding Human Variability in Serious, Persistent Offending
9. Steve G. Tibbetts: Perinatal and Developmental Determinants of Early Onset of Offending: A Biosocial Approach for Explaining the Two Peaks of Early Antisocial Behavior
Section 3: Special Topics and Populations
10. Asha Goldweber, Lisa M. Broidy, and Elizabeth Cauffman: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persistent Female Offending: A Review of Theory and Research
11. Mary Ann Davis: Foster Care Youth: Aging Out of Care to Criminal Activities
12. Thomas G. Blomberg, William D. Bales, and Courtney A. Waid: Educational Achievement Among Incarcerated Youth: Post-Release Schooling, Employment and Crime Desistance
Section 4: Methodology for Understanding the Criminal Career
13. Alex R. Piquero: Methodological Issues in the Study of Persistence in Offending
14. Manfred H.M. van Dulmen, Elizabeth A. Goncy, Andrea Vest, and Daniel J. Flannery: Group-Based Trajectory Modeling of Externalizing Behavior Problems from Childhood through Adulthood: Exploring Discrepancies in the Empirical Findings
15. KiDeuk Kim: Sanction Threats and Desistance from Criminality
Section 5: Conceptualizing the Persistent Offender
16. Rudy Haapanen, Lee Britton, Tim Croisdale, and Branko Coebergh: Serious Juvenile Offenders and Persistent Criminality
17. Travis C. Pratt: Reconsidering Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime: Linking the Micro- and Macro-Level Sources of Self-Control and Criminal Behavior Over the Life Course
18. Deborah M. Capaldi and Margit Wiesner: A Dynamic Developmental Systems Approach to Understanding Offending in Early Adulthood
19. Per-Olof H. Wikström and Kyle Treiber: What Drives Persistent Offending? The Neglected and Unexplored Role of the Social Environment
Section 6: Conclusions
20. Joanne Savage: What Have We Learned? Directions for Future Research and Policy

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Joanne Savage is an Associate Professor at American University. She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, at Irvine. She is interested in the "big picture" of violence in America, and has published articles on a variety of topics related to that issue including inequality, race, social capital, media violence, and human ecology.

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Special Features

  • Bridges the gap between criminal career research and developmental psychology research.
  • Helps build knowledge base for understanding most serious offenders.
  • Includes new empirical studies related to parenting, strain, social support, and the effects of educational programs for incarcerated juveniles.
  • Includes new conceptualizations for understanding persistence in offending-including a broadened approach to understanding self-control, the application of Wikstrom's situational action theory to the problem of persistence, a discussion of offender resistance to social control, and a dynamic developmental systems model for understanding young adult criminality.
  • Includes excellent reviews on risk factors for persistent offending, prior theory, findings from the major longitudinal studies, trajectories of offending, biological factors, gene-environment associations, early onset, methodological approaches to understanding persistence, family factors, poverty, strain and stressful life events, foster care, and female offending.
  • Presents a new approach to testing the effects of deterrence.
  • Presents a chapter on foster care, a widely ignored topic.
  • Presents a chapter on female persistence, a rarely examined topic.