ABSTRACT
Developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) is concerned with three main issues: the development of offending and antisocial behavior, risk and protective factors at different ages, and the effects of life events on the course of development. DLC is especially concerned to document and explain within-individual changes in offending throughout life. The main aim of this volume is to advance knowledge about DLC theories, which have been developed only in the last twenty years. These recent theories aim to integrate knowledge about individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community, and situational influences on offending, and to integrate key elements of earlier theories such as strain, social learning, control, and differential association.
