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41 Criminology 221 (2003)
Developmental and Life-Course Criminology: Key Theoretical and Empirical Issues - The 2002 Sutherland Award Address

handle is hein.journals/crim41 and id is 235 raw text is: DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-COURSE CRIMINOLOGY: KEY THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ISSUES-THE 2002 SUTHERLAND AWARD ADDRESS* DAVID P. FARRINGTON University of Cambridge The main aim of this paper is to advance knowledge and (especially) theories about developmental and life-course criminology (DLC). First, I review the widely accepted DLC findings that all DLC theories have been designed to explain. Second, I review more contentious and unresolved empirical DLC issues that might present challenges to DLC theories. Third, I describe my own DLC theory and specify how it addresses key empirical and theoretical questions. Fourth, I summarize five important DLC theories, by Catalano and Hawkins, Sampson and Laub, Moffitt, LeBlanc, and Thornberry and Krohn. Fifth, I identify differences in assumptions and predictions between my theory and the other five theories. Finally, I recommend a detailed comparison of the key features of all DLC theories, of their answers to key empirical and theoretical questions, and of their predictions regarding key unresolved empirical DLC issues. DEVELOPMENTAL AND LIFE-COURSE CRIMINOLOGY Developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) is concerned with three main issues: the development of offending and antisocial behavior, risk factors at different ages, and the effects of life events on the course of development. DLC is especially concerned with documenting and explaining within-individual changes in offending throughout life. It is a further elaboration of the criminal career paradigm that became very prominent in the 1980s (Blumstein et al., 1986) by adding in the study of risk factors and life events. This paradigm enormously advanced knowl- edge about the measurement of criminal career features such as onset, * I am very honored to have received the Sutherland Award; in recognition of Edwin H. Sutherland's great theoretical contributions, I decided to concentrate on theory. For helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper, I am very grateful to Bob Agnew, Tom Bernard, Ulla Bondeson, Frank Cullen, David Hawkins, Buddy Howell, Ines Ivicic, John Laub, Marc LeBlanc, Rolf Loeber, Terrie Moffitt, Alex Piquero, Rob Sampson, Simon Singer, Terry Thornberry and Brandon Welsh. I am also indebted to Maureen Brown for her excellent secretarial assistance. CRIMINOLOGY VOLUME 41 NUMBER 2 2003

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