Self-Control and Crime Over the Life Course - Softcover

Hay, Carter H.; Meldrum, Ryan C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483358992 ISBN 13: 9781483358994

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2015

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Self-Control and Crime Over the Life Course introduces readers to the idea of self-control and its importance for understanding criminal behaviour. Using intuitive examples, the authors draw attention to the close connection between self-control and the behavioural choices people make, especially in reference to criminal, deviant, and harmful behaviours that often carry short-term benefits but long-term costs. To achieve this, the authors employ two main perspectives throughout the book (1) studying self-control as an interdisciplinary construct informed by different but compatible perspectives; (2) studying self-control as a concept with immense practical, public policy value. 

The book provides a contemporary, interdisciplinary view on the state of the theory and focuses on self-control to achieve three purposes. 

• to describe the scientific evidence on the effects of low self-control on criminal, deviant, and harmful behaviours.
• to provide an integrative, interdisciplinary framework for understanding the meaning, causes, and consequences of low self-control. 
• to emphasize the practical, public policy value of this self-control research. Theoretical efforts in criminology and the social sciences too often neglect pressing matters of public policy, and theory may even at times seem little more than "fanciful ideas" disconnected from real-world events

The book includes charts, graphs, and boxed inserts to illustrate the arguments and connect them to case studies and current events that show the behavioural and policy relevance of self-control theory and research.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Carter Hay is a professor and the director of graduate studies in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. His articles, chapters, and books have focused on the causes and consequences of crime and deviance over the life course, with a special focus on self-control and its early in life precursors.

Dr. Ryan C. Meldrum is an Associate Professor and the Director of Research and Communications in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida International University. He received his B.S. in Sociology from Oregon State University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Criminology from Florida State University. His research foci encompass various aspects of juvenile delinquency and young adult offending, with his current work concentrated in three areas: the causes and consequences of low self-control, the health consequences of a lack of sleep among teenagers, and racial and ethnic disparities in school discipline and juvenile justice sanctioning among youth. His research has been published in outlets including Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Criminal Justice and Behavior, Crime & Delinquency,  Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Sleep Health, Intelligence, and Preventive Medicine. He also co-authored the book Self-Control and Crime over the Life Course. For his research contributions as a junior scholar, he was awarded the 2016 Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) New Scholar Award. 

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1483358992
• ISBN 13: 9781483358994
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312
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