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In his magisterial Great American City, Robert J. Sampson puts social scientific data behind an argument that we all feel and experience everyday: the neighborhood you live in has a big effect on your life and the city you live in. Not only does your neighborhood determine where your nearest hospital is, what kind of schools your children can attend, or how many police officers you might encounter (and how they respond to you), it affects how ...

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Life-course criminology has generated new energy and provoked sharp debate over competing ideas about the fundamental relationship between age and crime.  A major catalyst for this debate û a 2003 American Society of Criminology (ASC) conference session entitled 'Age, Crime, and Human Development: The Future of Life-Course Criminology, ' chaired by the editors of this issue û provided a springboard for this special issue of The Annals.  ''With...

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An analysis of the roles of behavioural contexts and individual differences in crime causation.

This new theory of crime over the life course provides an important foundation for rethinking criminal justice policy. It is based on the reanalysis of a classic set of data: Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents from childhood to adulthood. Several years ago, Robert Sampson and John Laub dusted off sixty cartons of the Gleucks' data that had been stored in the basement of the Harvard Law Scho...

For over fifty years numerous public intellectuals and social theorists have insisted that community is dead. Some would have us believe that we act solely as individuals choosing our own fates regardless of our surroundings, while other theories place us at the mercy of global forces beyond our control. These two perspectives dominate contemporary views of society, but by rejecting the importance of place they are both deeply flawed. Based on...