Across
- 3. something in individuals’ personal characteristics or their environment that increases the probability of offending.
- 4. Transition events in life (getting married, finding a job, moving to a new neighborhood) that may change a person’s life trajectory in prosocial directions.
- 6. The store of positive relationships in social networks built on norms of reciprocity and trust developed over time upon which the individual can draw for support.
- 7. the Statistical count of the number known crimes committed in a population over a given period mapped according to age.
- 8. A chronic neurological condition manifested as constant restlessness, impulsiveness, difficulty with peers, disruptive behavior, short attention span, academic under-achievement, risk-taking behavior, and extreme boredom.
- 9. The persistent display of serious antisocial actions that are extreme given the child’s developmental level and have a significant impact on the right of others.
- 10. in Moffitt’s theory, the gap between the average age of puberty and the acquisition of socially responsible adult roles.
- 11. A legal term that distinguishes between youthful (juvenile) offenders and adult offenders. Acts forbidden by law are called delinquent acts when committed by juveniles.
- 13. A developmental theory asserting that five life domains interact over the life course once individuals are set on a particular developmental trajectory by their degree of low self-control and irritability.
- 14. Theory stressing the power of informal social controls to explain onset, continuance, and desisting from crime, emphasizes the concepts of social capital, turning points in life, and human agency.
Down
- 1. Theory based on the notion of two main path-ways to offending; One pathway is followed by individuals with neurological and temperamental difficulties exacerbated by inept parenting. The other by “normal “individuals temporarily derailed during adolescence.
- 2. Theory based on the notion that people have varying levels of antisocial propensity due to a variety of environmental and biological factors.
- 5. Emphasize that individuals develop along different pathways, and as they do, factors that were previously meaningful to them (e.g. acceptance by antisocial peers). No longer are, factors that previously meant little to them (marriage and a career) become meaningful.
- 12. An assumed “master trait” such as self-control said to influence behavioral choices across time and situation.