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What is the sample of the study?
500 male delinquents and 500 males non-delinquents.
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What is the study that the data begin with?
Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
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What is desistance?
To stop from some form of action.
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What is Sampson and Laub's results?
Crime decreases with age for active offenders
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What is the city are the participants from?
Boston
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What is trajectory?
The path of life depending on what choices people make.
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What is what was going on in the 1930's that started this study in America?
Great Depression
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What is the two main focuses of the study?
Distinct group of offenders whose crime remains stable with increasing age.
Whether childhood characteristics, ind. Difference, family background can predict long-term offending. |
What is what other theory does the study link to?
General Strain Theory
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