The adult offending and school dropout nexus : a life course analysis /

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Liu establishes that high school graduation operates as a turning point in late adolescence in redirecting individuals' adult offending trajectories. High school graduation is individually experienced and especially beneficial to those at high risk of dropping out. It also redirects adult offen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Liu, Weiwei, 1979- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2013.
Colección:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Temas:
Education and crime > United States.
High school dropouts > United States > Social conditions.
Criminals > United States.
Éducation et criminalité > États-Unis.
Criminels > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminals
Education and crime
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Conceptualizing turning points
  • Conceptualizing high school graduation as a turning point
  • An empirical study of the graduation/dropout-offending relationship
  • Data used to assess the causal relationship between graduation/dropout and offending
  • Analytical methods to assess the graduation/dropout-offending relationship
  • Empirical results on the high school graduation/dropout-offending relationship
  • Reconciling the results with past findings on the graduation/ dropout-offending relationship
  • Implications for life course criminology and policy making
  • Looking into the future.

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