CCJ 4934 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Anti-Social Behaviour, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Youth Detention Center

• School: University of Florida
• Department: Sociology, Criminology and Law - Criminology
• Course: CCJ 4934
• Professor: Chris L Gibson

Document Summary

What do we know about the career criminal: most likely a male, not much data on women to examine their offending behaviors. Individual differences in activity over time are important: age/crime curve can mask these differences in trajectory. Moffit- developmental taxonomy: two pathways that exist that are masked under age crime curve. Individuals start criminal activity at some age: engage crime at some individual rate, mixture of crime committed, eventually stop. If offender at time a, and has high stability, very likely to offend at time b: need longitudinal data. Little agreement about interpretation and meaning of stability: state dependence. Relative stability- how a person ranks in a distribution compared to other people- how the ranking hold up over time when same behaviors are measured in the cohort. High degree of stability indicates same ranking retained over time. Low stability- high shift from time one to two.