Exam 9: New Directions: Integration and a Life-Course Perspective

__________________________combines elements of traditional perspectives to provide a more comprehensive explanation of crime.

The work that found that a chronic 6% of offenders accounted for nearly 50% of delinquent acts.

The length of time of criminal offending for the criminal career is referred to as:

Structural factors are often ignored as contributing to delinquency in:

Terrie Moffitt is responsible for formulating the age-graded theory of informal social control.

This concept suggests that antisocial behavior produces negative consequences, and these consequences promote stability of antisocial behavior.

Social structure and social control theories are fundamentally opposed to each other.

A ________________ is defined as a set of developmental sequences that describe the unfolding of a behavior over time.

The most common attempts at theoretical integration involve social control and ______________ theories.

This type of stability describes the stability of behavior within individuals.

This type of offender engages in antisocial behavior beginning in adolescence and typically desists from crime in early adulthood.

The career criminal debate claims there is single group called active offenders.

A set of developmental sequences that describe the unfolding of a behavior over time are risk factors.

Risk factors that promote antisocial and criminal behavior are exactly the same as factors that promote desistance from antisocial behavior.

Life-course persistent offender's behavior is a function of the developmental stage and social interactions.

Life-course criminology argues that antisocial behavior results from the intersection of biological, psychological, sociological, and situational risk factors.

A criminal career suggests that an individual makes his or her living by engaging in crime.

Robert Sampson and John Laub were recently award the Stockholm award for outstanding research in criminology.

Defined as consistency in the rankings of individuals on an observable characteristic over time

Contends that individuals proactively select themselves into certain environments, consistently react to environments in a certain manner, or evoke certain reactions from their environment, and these interactions promote consistency in how one behaves.