The development of antisocial behavior and crime : replication with the Montréal Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Studies

The development of antisocial behavior and crime : replication with the Montréal Cross Sectional and Longitudinal Studies / Marc Le Blanc.

This innovative and timely work explores how the developmental criminology paradigm can be applied to understandings beyond criminal careers, to the development of more general antisocial behavior. Importantly, the rich data set from 50-years of cross sectional and longitudinal studies provides repl...

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Main Author: LeBlanc, Marc, 1943- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer, [2021]
Subjects:
Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
Antisocial personality disorders.
Antisocial personality disorders
Criminal behavior, Prediction of
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations by Categories and Synonyms
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • What Kind of Journey Will We Have?
  • Beyond Crime, Toward Antisocial Behavior
  • From an Epidemiological Perspective, Toward a Developmental View
  • From Replication to Reproducibility, Toward Generalizability and Universality
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • About the Author
  • Chapter 1: The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior and Crime: A Measurement View
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Constructs of Antisocial Behavior
  • 2.1 The Legal or Societal Construct of Antisocial Behavior
  • 2.2 The Scientific Construct of Antisocial Behavior
  • 3 The Measurement of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior
  • 3.1 The Spectrum of Antisocial Behaviors
  • 3.2 The Metric Properties of the SRAB Scales
  • 3.2.1 The Reliability of the SRAB Scales
  • 3.2.2 The Validity of the SRAB Scales
  • 4 A Test of the Heteromorphy of Antisocial Behavior Measures
  • 5 The Empirical Structure of the Antisocial Behavior Construct
  • 5.1 The Theoretical Model, What Do We Know?
  • 5.2 A Test of the Antisocial Behavior Theoretical Model
  • 5.3 The Generalization of the Antisocial Behavior Hierarchical Model
  • 5.4 A Network View of the Patterns of Antisocial Behavior
  • 6 Conclusion
  • Chapter 2: Antisocial Behavior and Crime: An Epidemiological View
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Epidemiology of Official Antisocial Behavior and Crime Careers
  • 2.1 The Official Offending Career
  • 2.1.1 A Descriptive Statistic View
  • 2.1.2 An Age-Crime Curve View
  • Measurement Issues with Official Offending Data Sets
  • The Shape of the Age-Crime Curve in the 1960 and 1980 Generations
  • The Variations of the Age-Crime Curves by Delinquency Status, Genders, and Types of Offending
  • 2.2 The Official Problem Behavior Career
  • 3 The Epidemiology of Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior
  • 4 Conclusion
  • 4.1 The Shape of the Age-Crime Curves
  • 4.2 The Gender Gap
  • 4.3 The Generation Gap
  • 4.4 The Normative or Delinquent Status Gap
  • 4.5 The Mix of Antisocial Behavior Gap
  • Chapter 3: The Developmental Mechanisms of Antisocial Behavior and Crime, a Process View
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 The Mechanism of the Quantitative Changes in Antisocial Behavior and Crime: Activation-Deactivation
  • 2.1 The Quantitative Changes During an Official Offending Career
  • 2.2 The Quantitative Changes During a Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Career
  • 3 The Mechanism of Qualitative Changes in Antisocial Behavior and Crime: Aggravation-Deaggravation
  • 3.1 Offenses Switching or Changes in Behavioral Mixes
  • 3.2 Age at Onset-Offset Versus Seriousness
  • 3.3 A Developmental Sequence or Pathway
  • 3.4 The Qualitative Changes in Self-Reported Offending

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