Most people engage in crime at some point in their lives, but why does almost everybody stop soon after? And, why do a small number of offenders persist in crim

The wide-ranging scope of the Handbook of Life-Course Criminology covers genetics and environment, child offenders and late bloomers, the impact of school and p

From a look at classics like Psycho and Double Indemnity to recent films like Traffic and Thelma & Louise, Nicole Rafter and Michelle Brown show that criminolog

Developmental and life-course criminology aims to provide information about how offending and antisocial behavior develops, about risk and protective factors at

To confront the challenges criminologists face today and to satisfactorily critique the theories on which criminology is founded, we need to learn from the past