Integrated Developmental and Life-Course Theories of Offending

by David P. Farrington (Editor)

Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops, about risk and protective factors at different ages, and about the effects of life events on the course of development. The main intent of this volume is to advance knowledge about these theories of offender behavior, many of which have been formulated only in the last twenty years. It also aims to integrate knowledge about individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community, and situational influences on offender behavior, and to combine key elements of earlier theories such as strain, social learning, differential association, and control theory.

281 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 29, 2005

About the author

David Philip Farrington was a British criminologist, forensic psychologist, and emeritus professor of psychological criminology at the University of Cambridge, where he was also a Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow. In 2014, Paul Hawkins and Bitna Kim wrote that Farrington "is considered one of the leading psychologists and main contributors to the field of criminology in recent years."

Reviews

[Joseph]

DNF

This book is filled to the brim with information on integrated developmental, life-course theories, which is practical but makes the text “heavy” and the reading slow-paced.