SOC 2700 Chapter 13: chapter 13

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2700
• Professor: Stephanie Howells

Document Summary

Chapter #13, developmental and life-course theories, page 299-315. Introduction: developmental and life-course theories (dlc) try to make sense of different patterns of criminal behaviour over time. Where crime peaks in adolescence and declines as people get older. The goal of dlc is to understand the stability and changes in cb within the individual over time periods in their life. It is devoted to describing age-related patterns of crimes, tracking trajectories, discovering turning-points for individuals either towards or away from crime, and identifying risk or protective factors at various ages that trigger or quit crime. There are also 13 other questions but fuck them. Age and crime: age and crime is one of the most important facts of criminology. It is invariant across time, place, social and cultural conditions, and crime type (proven wrong for fucksakes. ) Age-crime curve is where the crime rate typically increases from early adolescence and peaks at mid-to late teenage years, then declines by adulthood.