Abstract
The main aim of this chapter is to review the key elements of nine developmental and life-course criminology theories, focusing especially on key empirical research that has been carried out to test them. These theories aim to explain within-individual changes in offending and antisocial behavior over time. There are short summaries of theories proposed by Lahey and Waldman, Moffitt, Loeber, Catalano and Hawkins, Le Blanc, Thornberry and Krohn, Wikstrom, and Sampson and Laub, and a longer summary of the ICAP theory proposed by Farrington. It is concluded that more efforts should be made to compare and contrast these theories in regard to their predictions and explanations of empirical results.
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Farrington, D. P., Ttofi, M. M., & Farrington, D. P. (2015). Developmental and life-course theories of offending. In The Development of Criminal and Antisocial Behavior: Theory, Research and Practical Applications (pp. 19–38). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08720-7_2
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