Turning Points
Definition
Adult events, such as a good marriage or stable employment, that restructure daily routines and supervision enough to redirect an offending trajectory toward desistance.
Related terms
- 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...
- Age-Graded Theory of Informal Social Control
- Sampson and Laub's theory that the institutions capable of bonding a person to conformity change with age, from family and school in...
- 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.
- Integrated Theory
- A theory that deliberately combines constructs from two or more existing theories, such as strain, control and social learning, into a single...
- 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 Criminology
- The branch of criminology, associated chiefly with Sampson and Laub, that studies how social institutions and adult life events, not just early...
- 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...