ABSTRACT
This chapter summarizes key findings from published studies using data from the Swedish longitudinal research program Individual Development and Adaptation (IDA). It focuses on studies that have examined factors related to registration for crime, with a particular focus on how to differentiate various pathways of crime in terms of individual and social childhood and adolescence risk factors and adulthood adjustment outcomes. The results of the reviewed studies from the IDA program are framed in the context of two life-course theories of criminal offending: Moffitt's developmental taxonomy theory and Thornberry and Krohn's Interactional theory. The chapter begins with a brief description of these two life-course theories and moves on to describe the questions we posed for the review of the findings on crime from the IDA program. It describes the penal climate of Sweden and the socio-demographic context of the city in which the IDA program has been conducted.
