Crime in the Making

Pathways and Turning Points through Life

Robert J. Sampson

John H. Laub

  • Winner of the American Society of Criminology's Michael J. Hindelang Book Award

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, Criminologist

Imaginative and forthright, a well-argued book with broad theoretical and methodological implications.
   --John Modell, American Journal of Sociology

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, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Crime in the Making deserves widespread attention.
   --Joan McCord, Contemporary Sociology

Hard-headed quantitative variable-oriented statistics are skillfully blended with qualitative person-oriented studies of individual life histories. A 'must' for anyone interested in either criminology or life-span development, and of great interest to a much wider group of readers. Crime in the Making is destined to become a classic.
   --Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London

  • Cover: Crime in the Making

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

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