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01.08.2008 | Übersichten
Developmental research on offending in adolescence
concepts and results
verfasst von:
Dr. Jürgen Thomas, Dr. Wolfgang Stelly
Erschienen in:
Forensische Psychiatrie, Psychologie, Kriminologie
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Ausgabe 3/2008
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Abstract
This paper presents a short overview of the developmental research of antisocial behavior in adolescence and young adulthood. We first discuss offending patterns based on official and self-reported data and their limitations and problems. Secondly, we discuss the idea of the ubiquity of juvenile delinquency and the frequent occurrence of desistance in the transition to adulthood. The cessation of criminal activities is also found by so called „chronic juvenile offenders“. We than discuss two important developmental theories of crime: the taxonomic theory of Moffitt and the age-graded informal social control theory of Sampson and Laub. Based on the qualitative desistance study of serious young offenders, Stelly and Thomas not only demonstrate the different pathways out of crime, the results also demonstrate the limitation of the available theories.