New frontiers in criminal careers research, 2000-2011: A state-of-the-art review
Author(s)
DeLisi, Matt
Piquero, Alex R
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2011
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Purpose: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the current state-of-theart review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011. Materials and methods: Keyword searches of Science Direct, Scopus, and the National Criminal Justice Research Service produced 364 studies on criminal careers. Results: A narrative meta-review summarizes essential findings on the parameters of the criminal career, investigates emerging theoretical and disciplinary extensions that utilize the criminal career framework, and identifies 16 pressing research gaps. Conclusions: Although the study of ...
View more >Purpose: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the current state-of-theart review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011. Materials and methods: Keyword searches of Science Direct, Scopus, and the National Criminal Justice Research Service produced 364 studies on criminal careers. Results: A narrative meta-review summarizes essential findings on the parameters of the criminal career, investigates emerging theoretical and disciplinary extensions that utilize the criminal career framework, and identifies 16 pressing research gaps. Conclusions: Although the study of criminal careers has been a dominant research area in criminology, its presence is likely to expand as research becomes more interdisciplinary and a longitudinal, biosocial perspective takes hold in the criminological sciences.
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View more >Purpose: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the current state-of-theart review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011. Materials and methods: Keyword searches of Science Direct, Scopus, and the National Criminal Justice Research Service produced 364 studies on criminal careers. Results: A narrative meta-review summarizes essential findings on the parameters of the criminal career, investigates emerging theoretical and disciplinary extensions that utilize the criminal career framework, and identifies 16 pressing research gaps. Conclusions: Although the study of criminal careers has been a dominant research area in criminology, its presence is likely to expand as research becomes more interdisciplinary and a longitudinal, biosocial perspective takes hold in the criminological sciences.
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Journal Title
Journal of Criminal Justice
Volume
39
Issue
4
Subject
Criminology
Criminology not elsewhere classified