Most people engage in crime at some point in their lives, but why does almost everybody stop soon after? And, why do a small number of offenders persist in crim

In order to understand the perpetuance of crime, multiple influences in offenders’ lives must be considered. Criminological Theory: A Life-Course Approach exp

Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops, about risk and protective factors at

The wide-ranging scope of the Handbook of Life-Course Criminology covers genetics and environment, child offenders and late bloomers, the impact of school and p

To confront the challenges criminologists face today and to satisfactorily critique the theories on which criminology is founded, we need to learn from the past