Exam 9: Developmental Theories: Life Course, Latent Trait, and Trajectory

Explain the difference between "adolescent-limited" and "life course-persistent" offenders. What are the differences between the offense patterns for these two pathway groups?

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.

Developmental theories attempt to provide a global vision of a criminal career, encompassing its onset, persistence, and desistance.

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.

What is known about the marriage factor and crime?

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

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

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

The association between self-control, poor impulse control, and crime applies more accurately to the motivations for juvenile crime: motivations for adult crime differ. This helps to explain the aging out process.

What theory developed by Gottfredson and Hirschi considers the criminal offender and the criminal act as separate concepts?

Discuss the history of development theory.