Life-Course-Persistent Offending
Definition
In Moffitt's taxonomy, antisocial behaviour that begins in early childhood, rooted in neuropsychological deficits and disrupted parenting, and that tends to continue across the life span.
Related terms
- Adolescence-Limited Offending
- In Moffitt's taxonomy, antisocial behaviour that emerges in the teenage years, driven by peer context and the gap between physical and social...
- Age-Crime Curve
- The graph of offending rate against age, which rises through adolescence, peaks in the late teens and declines through adulthood in almost...
- Aging Out
- The empirical tendency of most offenders to stop committing crime as they move through their twenties, largely independent of formal punishment.
- Desistance
- The process by which an individual stops offending, usually gradual rather than a single event, and typically tied to changes in routine,...
- Maturation Reform
- An older criminological label for the same aging-out pattern, used before modern life-course research identified the social mechanisms, such as work and...