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- Title
LIFE-COURSE TRAJECTORIES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF OFFENDERS.
- Authors
Nagin, Daniel S.; Farrington, David P.; Moffitt, Terrie E.
- Abstract
The point of departure for this paper is Nagin and Land (1993), who identified four distinctive offending trajectories in a sample of 403 British males--a group without any convictions, "adolescence-limiteds," "high-level chronics," and "low-level chronics." We build upon that study with a detailed analysis of the distinguishing individual characteristics, behaviors, and social circumstances from ages 10 through 32 of these four groups. The most salient findings concern the adolescence-limiteds. By age 32 the work records of the adolescence-limiteds were indistinguishable from the never-convicted and substantially better than those of the chronic offenders. The adolescence-limiteds also seem to have established better relationships with their spouses than the chronics. The seeming reformation of the adolescence-limiteds, however, was less than complete. They continued to drink heavily and use drugs, get into fights, and commit criminal acts (according to self-reports).
- Subjects
UNITED Kingdom; CRIME; CRIMINALS; INTERPERSONAL relations; HUMAN behavior
- Publication
Criminology, 1995, Vol 33, Issue 1, p111
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1745-9125.1995.tb01173.x