Late onset offending and substance use : findings from the NYSFS /

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Welch analyzes findings from the National Youth Survey Family Study (NYSFS) to determine the frequency and predictors of late onset offending and other problem behaviors in adulthood. She clarifies the conceptualization of late onset, to investigate the contradictions in findings concerning its occu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Welch, Kristen L., 1971- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2012.
Series:Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Subjects:
Criminal behavior.
Drug abuse and crime.
Criminals > Drug use.
Criminal behavior, Prediction of.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Criminal behavior
Criminal behavior, Prediction of
Criminals > Drug use
Drug abuse and crime
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The ambiguity of late onset
  • Life course criminology and offending trajectories
  • Adolescent onset of problem behaviors
  • Adult onset of problem behaviors
  • Theoretical explanations of late onset
  • Methodological issues in studying late onset
  • Designing a study of late onset
  • Identifying early, normative, and late onset: findings from the NYSFS
  • Predictors of early, normative and late onset: patterns of initiation for substance use and offending
  • Late onset: mountain or molehill?

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