The Cycle of Deviant Behavior Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism /

• Main Authors: Kaplan, Howard B. (Author), Tolle, Glen C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Criminology.; Sociology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Sociology, general.

To conduct the study on criminal and antisocial behavior at the center of this volume, the authors devoted years to collecting data from a large community sample of first-generation subjects. Data were garnered throughout their early adolescence, twenties, and thirties as well as from these first-ge...

Table of Contents:

• Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of Intergenerational Parallelism of Deviance
• Toward an Understanding of Intergenerational Parallelism of Deviance
• Method
• The Conditional Nature of Intergenerational Parallelism
• Observing Intergenerational Parallelism in Deviance
• Moderators of Intergenerational Parallelism
• Decomposing Intergenerational Parallelism
• Intervening Processes
• Intergenerational Continuity of Intragenerational Causes of Deviant Behavior and Its Correlates
• Retrospect and Prospect
• Summary and Conclusions.