SOCI 388 Chapter Notes - Chapter Laub: Moving Violations, Social Capital
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Laub, sampson: shared beginninds, divergent lives: delinquent boys to age 70. Why some offenders stop: life-history narratives for men who have desisted from crime. Unpacking the desistance process: despite early instability, rancor and family chaos, men who desisted from crime exhibited remarkable stability and organization across several adult life domains. Self-identified turning points included marriage, serving in the military, being sent to the lyman school for. This suggests that stable work may not trigger a change in antisocial trajectory in the way that marriage or serving in the military does, even though employment may play an important role in sustaining the process of desistance. Important setting in which to acquire the discipline and structure that were absent from their young lives. It was also a place where they could perform tasks that they would be rewarded for, in sharp contrast to many of their school and family experiences. The lyman-military nexus: several men alluded to a lyman-military connection.
