Abstract
One of the strongest correlates of crime is age, with a common empirical finding of an adolescent rise and peak of offending. One theory in particular, Moff tt's developmental taxonomy, advances a specific hypothesis for the age-crime relationship, with a focus on a specific typology of offenders, adolescence-limited, who offend for specific reasons during adolescence. This chapter reviews the adolescence-limited hypothesis, relevant empirical research, and concludes with summary statements, challenges to Moffitt's adolescence-limited hypothesis, and directions for future research.
Author supplied keywords
Cite
CITATION STYLE
Piquero, A. R., Diamond, B., Jennings, W. G., & Reingle, J. M. (2013). Adolescence-limited offending. In Handbook of Life-Course Criminology: Emerging Trends and Directions for Future Research (pp. 129–142). Springer New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5113-6_8
Register to see more suggestions
Mendeley helps you to discover research relevant for your work.
