Exam 9: Developmental Theories Life Course Latent Trait and Trajectory

According to research on persistence patterns, _______ traits rather than environmental traits seem to have the greatest influence on life course persistence.

Building __________________-positive relations with individuals and institutions that are life sustaining supports conventional behavior and inhibits deviant behavior.

The most important social control a person can establish is a successful marriage.

The pathway of crime that begins with bullying and annoying others and then escalates to physical fighting and violence is known as:

__________________, in his Philadelphia cohort research, identified a small group of chronic offenders who engaged in frequent and repeated criminal activity across their life spans.

Discuss the factors that comprise problem behavior syndrome (PBS) and the association between PBS and crime.

Most life course theories believe that the seeds of a criminal career are planted ________.

Most theories focus on why people get involved in crime. In an important 1993 work,____________________, Robert Sampson and John Laub instead focus on whether there are trails back to conformity

According Farrington, ____________involves direct forms of physical violence, such as robbery, sexual assault, or other forms of assault.

The concept of ____________assumes that the propensity of an individual to participate in antisocial and/or criminal behaviors  is a relatively stable trait, unchanging over their life course.

Life course theories recognize that as people mature the factors that influence their behaviors change. At first, family relations may be most influential. In later adolescence, _________ and _________ relations dominate.

.Life events that enable adult offenders to desist from crime are known as:

Research evaluations indicate that the most promising multicomponent crime and substance-abuse prevention programs for youths, especially those at high risk, are aimed at improving their developmental skills.

Gottfredson and Hirschi trace the root cause of poor self-control to inadequate _________.

Developmental theory holds that criminality may best be understood as one of many social problems faced by at-risk youth, a view termed___________________________. According to this view crime is one among a group of interrelated antisocial behaviors.

The life events most likely to enable adult offenders to desist from crime are:

According to _____________________, crime is one among a group of interrelated antisocial behaviors that cluster together and typically involve family dysfunction, sexual and physical abuse, substance abuse, smoking, precocious sexuality and early pregnancy, educational underachievement, suicide attempts, sensation seeking, and unemployment

Which of the following is a stable feature, characteristic, property, or condition, present at birth or soon after, that makes some people crime prone over the life course.

Positive relations with individuals and institutions that are life sustaining are known as:

Those who study _______________ attempt to provide a more global vision of a criminal career, encompassing its onset, continuation, and termination.