Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control
Definition
Sampson and Laub's theory that the institutions capable of bonding a person to conformity change with age, from family and school in youth to marriage, military service and employment in adulthood.
Related terms
- Integrated Theory
- A theory that deliberately combines constructs from two or more existing theories, such as strain, control and social learning, into a single...
- Life-Course Criminology
- The branch of criminology, associated chiefly with Sampson and Laub, that studies how social institutions and adult life events, not just early...
- Adolescence-Limited Offender
- In Moffitt's taxonomy, an offender whose antisocial conduct begins and ends within adolescence, driven by peer context rather than by an early-emerging...
- Adolescence-Limited Offenders
- In Moffitt's taxonomy, the majority of adolescent offenders, who have no early conduct-problem history and stop offending by their early twenties once...
- Developmental Taxonomy
- Moffitt's 1993 model treating the age-crime curve as a composite of two etiologically distinct offender groups rather than one shared process.
- Interactional Theory
- Thornberry's 1987 model that makes the causal links between weak bonds, peer association and delinquency reciprocal and lets their relative weight shift...
- Life-Course-Persistent Offender
- In Moffitt's taxonomy, an offender whose antisocial conduct begins in early childhood and tends to continue, in some form, across the life...
- Life-Course-Persistent Offenders
- In Moffitt's taxonomy, a small group whose antisocial behaviour starts in early childhood and continues in an age-appropriate form across the life...
- Turning Point
- A life event, such as a stable marriage, military service or steady employment, that redirects an offending trajectory by creating new social...
- Turning Points
- Adult events, such as a good marriage or stable employment, that restructure daily routines and supervision enough to redirect an offending trajectory...
Explained in these topics
- Life-Course and Integrated Theories (UGC-NET Unit IV)
- Life-Course, Developmental and Integrated Theories of CrimeSampson and Laub's theory that the strength of a person's bonds to family, school and work shapes offending at every stage of life, with the relevant bonds cha...