Table of Contents
1. Taking stock of life-course criminology (
Arjan Blokland and Victor van der Geest)
Part I: Theory2. The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory: Empirical Testing (
David P. Farrington and Tara Renae McGee)
3. Human Agency: The Missing Element in Theories of Desistance (
Raymond Paternoster and Ronet Bachman)
4. A Relational Perspective on Agency and the Desistance Process: A Reaction to Paternoster and Bachman (
Peggy Giordano)
5. Situational Action Theory and PADS+: Theoretical and Methodological Advances in the Study of Life Course Criminology (
Kyle Treiber)
6. Religion, Spirituality, and Desistance from Crime: Toward a Theory of Existential Identity Transformation (
Sung Joon Jang and Byron R. Johnson)
Part II: Criminal Careers7. Changing crime-mix patterns of offending over the life course: A comparative study in England and Wales and the Netherlands (
Amy Elliott, Brian Francis, Keith Soothill and Arjan Blokland)
8. Crime specialization as a dynamic process? Criminal careers, crime mix and crime specialization in chronic, serious and violent offenders (
Patrick Lussier, Evan McCuish, Nadine Deslauriers-Varin and Raymond R. Corrado)
9. Comparing criminal careers across three national cohorts: Finland, Denmark and The Netherlands (
Henrik Elonheimo, Signe Frederiksen, Wim Bernasco and Arjan Blokland)
Part III: Onset and Continuation10. Exploration and explanation of adolescent self-reported delinquency trajectories in the
Crimoc study (
Daniel Seddig and Jost Reinecke)
11. Social and individual antecedents of adolescent-onset conduct problem behaviour (
Tina Kretschmer, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra and René Veenstra)
12. Trying to Make It Work: Change within Continuity in Offending during Early Adulthood (
Sarah Boonstoppel)
13. Risk Factors and Adulthood Adjustment Outcomes for Different Pathways of Crime: Key Findings from the Swedish IDA Program (
Jelena Corovic, Anna-Karin Andershed, Olivier F. Colins, and Henrik Andershed)
Part IV: Offending over the Life-Course14. Changes in offending around official labor market entry: Vulnerable youths in transition to adulthood (
Victor van der Geest, Torbjørn Skardhamar and Janna Verbruggen)
15. To See the Fear in Their Eyes; Poses of Violence in Biography (
Frank van Gemert)
16. Intergenerational Transmission of Crime: An International, Empirical Assessment (
Steve van de Weijer, Sytske Besemer and Megan Augustyn)
Part V: Desistance from Offending17. Offending and Offence Patterns in the Early Stages of Desistance: A Study of Young Men in England (
Joanna Shapland and Anthony Bottoms)
18. The Transition to Adulthood and the Ambivalence of Desistance (
Christoffer Carlsson)
19. Substance Abuse, Crime and the Life Course (
Olof Bäckman, Felipe Estrada and Anders Nilsson)
20. Expanding Our Understanding of Women’s Risk of Re-incarceration (
Elanie Rodermond, Candace Kruttschnitt, Anne-Marie Slotboom and Catrien Bijleveld)
Part VI: Official Interventions21. The past and future labour market careers of Dutch prisoners (
Anke Ramakers, Paul Nieuwbeerta, Johan van Wilsem, Robert Apel and Anja Dirkzwager)
22. The impact of imprisonment on IPV offenders’ risks of recidivism: An application of two natural experiments in the city of Barcelona (
Jorge Rodríguez-Menés and Mathew Creighton)
23. ‘Virtual’ versus ‘real’ prison: which is best? Comparing the re-incarceration rates after electronic monitoring and imprisonment in Belgium (
Luc Robert, Eric Maes, Arjan Blokland and Hilde Wermink)
24. The Long-Term Impacts of Probation Supervision (
Ben Hunter, Stephen Farrall, Gilly Sharpe and Adam Calverley)
25. Intergenerational continuity in incarceration: Evidence from a Dutch multi-generation cohort (
Susan Dennison, Catrien Bijleveld, and Steve van de Weijer)