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New frontiers in criminal careers research, 2000–2011: A state-of-the-art review
The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011. Keyword searches of Science Direct, Scopus, and the National Criminal Justice Research Service produced 364 studies on criminal careers....
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Published in: | Journal of criminal justice 2011-07, Vol.39 (4), p.289-301 |
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Main Authors: | , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011.
Keyword searches of Science Direct, Scopus, and the National Criminal Justice Research Service produced 364 studies on criminal careers.
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.
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.
► Criminal careers research is increasingly aligning with self-control theory, psychopathy, the developmental taxonomy, and biosocial criminology. ► Criminal careers research is poised to combine with developmental psychopathology research to offer a full life-course understanding of crime. ► Career criminals are analogous to allied constructs in clinical psychology that point to pathological and extreme antisocial conduct for a small subset of criminal offenders. |
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ISSN: | 0047-2352 1873-6203 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2011.05.001 |