Routledge International Handbook of Life-Course Criminology

Arjan Blokland is Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology at Leiden University, and Senior Researcher at the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR), Amsterdam.Victor van der Geest is a development psychologist and Assistant Professor at VU University, Amsterdam.

• 1. Taking stock of life-course criminology Part I: Theory 2. The Integrated Cognitive Antisocial Potential (ICAP) Theory: Empirical Testing 3. Human Agency: The Missing Element in Theories of Desistance 4. A Relational Perspective on Agency and the Desistance Process: A Reaction to Paternoster and Bachman 5. Situational Action Theory and PADS+: Theoretical and Methodological Advances in the Study of Life Course Criminology 6. Religion, Spirituality, and Desistance from Crime: Toward a Theory of Existential Identity Transformation Part II: Criminal Careers 7. Changing crime-mix patterns of offending over the life course: A comparative study in England and Wales and the Netherlands 8. Crime specialization as a dynamic process? Criminal careers, crime mix and crime specialization in chronic, serious and violent offenders 9. Comparing criminal careers across three national cohorts: Finland, Denmark and The Netherlands Part III: Onset and Continuation 10. Exploration and explanation of adolescent self-reported delinquency trajectories in the Crimoc study 11. Social and individual antecedents of adolescent-onset conduct problem behaviour 12. Trying to Make It Work: Change within Continuity in Offending during Early Adulthood 13. Risk Factors and Adulthood Adjustment Outcomes for Different Pathways of Crime: Key Findings from the Swedish IDA Program Part IV: Offending over the Life-Course 14. Changes in offending around official labor market entry: Vulnerable youths in transition to adulthood 15. To See the Fear in Their Eyes; Poses of Violence in Biography 16. Intergenerational Transmission of Crime: An International, Empirical Assessment Part V: Desistance from Offending 17. Offending and Offence Patterns in the Early Stages of Desistance: A Study of Young Men in England (18. The Transition to Adulthood and the Ambivalence of Desistance 19. Substance Abuse, Crime and the Life Course (20. Expanding Our Understanding of Women’s Risk of Re-incarceration Part VI: Official Interventions 21. The past and future labour market careers of Dutch prisoners 22. The impact of imprisonment on IPV offenders’ risks of recidivism: An application of two natural experiments in the city of Barcelona 23. ‘Virtual’ versus ‘real’ prison: which is best? Comparing the re-incarceration rates after electronic monitoring and imprisonment in Belgium 24. The Long-Term Impacts of Probation Supervision 25. Intergenerational continuity in incarceration: Evidence from a Dutch multi-generation cohort.

"This collection of works from the leading national and international scholars on life-course criminology is a wonderful gift to the field. Written in an accessible, yet authoritative manner, chapters touch on all matters from theory to data to policy. And it is choc-full of key research questions that will mark the landscape for years to come. I’ve learned so much already and I am sure that it will continue to be the gift that will keep on giving in the future."Alex R. Piquero, Ashbel Smith Professor of Criminology, University of Texas at Dallas, USA