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Overview
This new theory of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking criminal justice policy. It is based on the reanalysis of a classic set of data: Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents from childhood to adulthood. Several years ago, Robert Sampson and John Laub dusted off sixty cartons of the Gleucks' data that had been stored in the basement of the Harvard Law School and undertook a lengthy process of recoding, computerizing, and reanalyzing it. On the basis of their findings, they developed a theory of informal social control that acknowledges the importance of childhood behavior but rejects the implication that adult social factors have little relevance. This theory accounts for both stability and change in crime and deviance throughout the life course.
Editorial Reviews
American Journal of Sociology
Imaginative and forthright, a well-argued book with broad theoretical and methodological implications.
— John Modell
Contemporary Sociology
Crime in the Making deserves widespread attention.
— Joan McCord
Criminologist
The book's logical organization, the authors' parsimonious explanation of key concepts and theoretical propositions, and the comprehensive presentation of their findings interact to produce a volume that possesses a high degree of clarity and readability...Crime in the Making should be read by all developmental criminologists and those interested in the study of criminal careers.
— Douglas Yearwood
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
This book will be widely read and cited, and it deserves to be. [The authors] have carefully crafed a model which addresses both stability and change in delinquency and crime over the life course, and they have done an impeccable job of testing it.
— Candace Kruttschnitt
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Meet the Author
Robert J. Sampson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Harvard University.
John H. Laub is Professor of Criminology, University of Maryland.
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Toward an Age-graded Theory of Informal Social Control
2. Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency and Follow-up Studies
3. Restoring, Supplementing, and Validating the Data
4. The Family Context of Juvenile Delinquency
5. The Role of School, Peers, and Siblings
6. Continuity in Behavior over Time
7. Adult Social Bonds and Change in Criminal Behavior
8. Comparative Models of Crime and Deviance
9. Exploring Life Histories
10. Summing Up and Looking Ahead
Appendix: Interview with the Gluecks' Original Research Staff
Notes
References
Index