Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives

Delinquent Boys to Age 70

John H. Laub

Robert J. Sampson

  • 2004 Michael J. Hindelang Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology, Sponsored by the American Society of Criminology
  • 2005 Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
  • 2004 Albert J. Reiss Award Sponsored by the Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
  • 2005 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences

Acknowledgments

1. Diverging Pathways of Troubled Boys

2. Persistence or Desistance?

3. Explaining the Life Course of Crime

4. Finding the Men

5. Long-Term Trajectories of Crime

6. Why Some Offenders Stop

7. Why Some Offenders Persist

8. Zigzag Criminal Careers

9. Modeling Change in Crime

10. Rethinking Lives in and out of Crime

Notes

References

Index

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John H. Laub is Professor of Criminology, University of Maryland.

Robert J. Sampson is Professor and Chair of Sociology at Harvard University.