Référence
Lussier, P. & McCuish, E. (2020). A Developmental Life-Course View of Sexual Offending. In Jean P., Franca C., Leam A.C., Elizabeth J.L. (Eds). Taking Stock of Research on the Life-Course Development of Antisocial and Criminal Behavior.
Résumé
This chapter introduces the scientific literature on the life-course development of antisocial and criminal behavior. It provides a review of key concepts and findings related to criminal-career research, developmental criminology, and life-course criminology. chapter examines some of the implications of such research for the description, explanation, and prevention of sexual offending. The criminal-career approach is an important line of research that helped establish the conceptual and methodological foundations of the Developmental life-course (DLC) perspective. Developmental criminology is a research paradigm concerned with the description and explanation of the precursors of adult criminal behavior. Life-course criminology is primarily rooted in sociological perspectives concerned with how and why people change their behavior, including why desistance from offending occurs. A central principle of life-course criminology is that informal social controls act as turning points that promote desistance.
