Twenty years in the making: Revisiting Laub and Sampson's version of life-course criminology

Evan McCuish and Patrick Lussier

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2023, vol. 88, issue C

Abstract: Using data on participants born around 100 years ago, Laub and Sampson asserted that early developmental risk factors are not informative of social outcomes in adulthood. More specifically, they claimed that early risk factors were not informative of adulthood informal social control, persistent offending, and the degree to which informal social control protects against later offending. We offer a contemporary comparison point to these claims that carry theoretical implications for developmental and life-course criminology.

Keywords: Developmental criminology; Informal social control; Life-course criminology; Offending persistence; Selection effects; Treatment effect heterogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2023.102117

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