- 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


Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
Delinquent Boys to Age 70
Product Details
PAPERBACK
$35.50 • £30.95 • €32.95
ISBN 9780674019935
Publication Date: 03/31/2006
Awards & Accolades
- 2005 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
- 2005 Albert J. Reiss Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, Crime, Law, and Deviance Section of the American Sociological Association
- A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2005
- 2004 Michael J. Hindelang Award, American Society of Criminology