What is the importance of the Gluecks research?

1. What is the importance of the Gluecks research? How do you see this work still having an impact today? Why do you think Sutherland attacked the Gluecks research? How does the multifactor approach taken by the Gluecks differ from the research of the traditional criminologists? What are the advantages and disadvantages of this multifactor approach? What kind of policy would embody this approach?

2. Why are most sociological theories of crime implicitly continuity theories? How do individual trait theories explain crime? Why are they theories of continuity? How do you prevent crime, according to individual trait theories? That is, discuss a policy that would prevent crime, if this is the cause.

3. How is Gottfredson and Hirschis theory a theory of continuity? What policy implications arise from Gottfredson and Hirschis self-control theory?

4. What are the many differences between life-course-persistent offenders (LCPs) and adolescence-limited offenders (ALs)? Give examples in your life of evocative, reactive, and proactive interactions. Think about your life and your teenage years, especially. Describe someone you know (yourself or a peer) who could be classified as an LCP. Describe someone you know (yourself or a peer) who could be classified as an AL. Why do you describe yourself (or any of your peers) that way? Justify your classification with a thorough application of Moffitts work. How would you test Moffitts theory? Would you use a cross-sectional or longitudinal research design? Why? What policy implications can be drawn from Moffitts theory? How would you treat LCPs? How would you treat ALs?

describe the developmental perspective supported by the research. How is it similar to or different from Moffitts perspective?

6. How is Sampson and Laubs theory similar and different to Gottfredson and Hirschis self-control theory and Moffitts LCP and AL theory? Describe the continuity or change, and thoroughly explain why it seems consistent with Sampson and Laubs theory. Discuss why the quality of the social bond so important in Sampson and Laubs theory? How would you test Sampson and Laubs theory? What policy implications arise from Sampson and Laubs theory?

7. How does Sampson and Laubs theory differ from Giordano et al.s theory? How can Sampson and Laubs and Giordano et al.s theories be integrated? How do cognitive shifts and human agency differ? How do hooks for change and turning points differ?

8. How does Paternoster and Bushways theory differ from the theories of Sampson and Laub and Giordano et al. Explain the process of desistance described by Paternoster and Bushway. What are the similarities between Paternoster and Bushway and Maruna? Differences? Could Paternoster and Bushways identity theory of desistance explain desistance for other types of behavior and not only criminal behavior? Give examples. What policies could arise from Paternoster and Bushways theory?

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