CHAPTER FIVE

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CHAPTER FIVE

• DEVELOPMENTAL VIEWS OF DELINQUENCY

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Developmental Theory

• Definition
• Personal characteristics guide development
• Personal characteristics influence behavioral
  choices
• Choices change over the life course
• Views
• Life-course theory
• Latent trait view

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Beginnings and Concepts

• Gluecks research (1930s)
• How research was conducted
• Factors connected to persistent offending
• Concepts
• Age of onset
• Life transitions
• Problem Behavior Syndrome
• Pathways
• Timing
• Continuity

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Life-Course Theories

• Social Development Model
• Prosocial bonds
• Connection to anti-social behavior
• Age-Graded Theory
• Lifes turning points
• Social capital
• Revisiting the Gluecks research

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Latent Trait View

• How differs from life-course theories
• General Theory of Crime
• Basic premises
• Origins of self-control
• Self-control and delinquency
• Criticisms

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Life-Course v. Latent Trait

• Similarities
• Differences
• Recent research

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DEVELOPMENTAL VIEWS OF DELINQUENCY

• END CHAPTER FIVE