Laub & Sampson "A thoery of persistent offending & Desistance over time"

Question 1

Argue people can be caught in pathways/ life trajectories that form a continuous line over time

Answer 1

may extend from childhood; there is coniderable evidence that impact social behavior is relatively stable across life courses.

Question 2

Are there turning points/ transitions?

Answer 2

Yes, events can change life trajectories like getting married or having kids.

Question 3

Complex set a factor combine to entrench a child on an antisocial pathway

Answer 3

• individuals differences and disadvantages environment (unstable family life)
• The above conditions foster:
  1. ineffective & rejecting parenting
  2. Decreased the changes the child will do well in school
  3. may lead to exposure to delinquent peers & siblings

Question 4

What are the turning points

Answer 4

1. knifing off the past from the present
   ^has been proven; you get out of prison & continue to hang out with the same group leads to a repetitive outcome.
2. providing supervision, monitoring, & opportunities for social support & growth
3. Bringing change & structure to routine activities
4. providing opportunities for identity transformation

Question 5

Can people get out of this criminal pathway

Answer 5

Individual established conventional social bonds, this will lead to social control & has the potential to change the behavior.
(this employs Hershey social bonds; change occurs on the quality of turning points.
*It is not just one turning point it can be multiple.

Question 6

Can persistence involve human agency

Answer 6

People have some choices within their given social context or situation (motivation)
- They don’t see motivation as enduring more because its situational/ environmental

Question 7

Persistent offenders are those who have quality social bonds or turning points

Answer 7

FALSE

• their lives are marked with much marital, residential, and job instability, failure in school & long periods of incarceration.