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
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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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