Explaining the Facts of Crime: How the Developmental Taxonomy Replies to Farrington’s Invitation

2017 ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
Terrie E. Moffitt
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Taxonomy

The Developmental Taxonomy

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-158
Author(s):  
Tara Renae McGee ◽  
Terrie E. Moffitt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Early Onset ◽  
Adult Onset ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Offending Behavior ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter considers whether the peak in the age–crime curve is a function of active offenders committing more crime during adolescence or a function of more individuals actively offending in the peak years. It discusses the two main and most empirically tested typological groupings: the life-course persistent group and the adolescence limited group. The chapter then reviews the evidence on a theoretically interesting grouping: those who abstain from antisocial and offending behavior. It focuses on the debate regarding whether those who were originally thought to recover from early-onset antisocial behavior have childhood-limited antisocial behavior or exhibit low-level chronic antisocial behavior across the life course. Finally, the chapter discusses how the theory it introduces accounts for adult-onset offending and considers whether there are gender differences that need to be accounted for by the theory.

A Partial Test of Moffitt’s Developmental Taxonomy: Examining the Role of Genetic Risk

2013 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 768-791 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Schwartz ◽  
Kevin M. Beaver
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Risk ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy

Can they recover? An assessment of adult adjustment problems among males in the abstainer, recovery, life-course persistent, and adolescence-limited pathways followed up to age 56 in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley G. Jennings ◽  
Michael Rocque ◽  
Bryanna Hahn Fox ◽  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
David P. Farrington
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Middle Adulthood ◽  
Adjustment Problems ◽  
Comprehensive Investigation ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
Adult Adjustment

AbstractMuch research has examined Moffitt's developmental taxonomy, focusing almost exclusively on the distinction between life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offenders. Of interest, a handful of studies have identified a group of individuals whose early childhood years were marked by extensive antisocial behavior but who seemed to recover and desist (at least from severe offending) in adolescence and early adulthood. We use data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development to examine the adult adjustment outcomes of different groups of offenders, including a recoveries group, in late middle adulthood, offering the most comprehensive investigation of this particular group to date. Findings indicate that abstainers comprise the largest group of males followed by adolescence-limited offenders, recoveries, and life-course persistent offenders. Furthermore, the results reveal that a host of adult adjustment problems measured at ages 32 and 48 in a number of life-course domains are differentially distributed across these four offender groups. In addition, the recoveries and life-course persistent offenders often show the greatest number of adult adjustment problems relative to the adolescence-limited offenders and abstainers.

scholarly journals A Developmental Taxonomy of Juvenile Sex Offenders for Theory, Research, and Prevention

2012 ◽  
Vol 39 (12) ◽  
pp. 1559-1581 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Lussier ◽  
Chantal Van Den Berg ◽  
Catrien Bijleveld ◽  
Jan Hendriks
Keyword(s):  
Sex Offenders ◽  
Juvenile Sex Offenders ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Theory Research
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