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Key Issues in Criminal Career Research Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 July 2009
“Who are YOU?” said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, “I – I hardly know, sir, just at present – at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” “What do you mean by that?” said the Caterpillar sternly. “Explain yourself!” “I can't explain MYSELF, I'm afraid, sir,” said Alice, “because I'm not myself, you see.” “I don't see,” said the Caterpillar. “I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,” Alice replied very politely, “for I can't understand it myself to begin with; and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.”
(From Alice in Wonderland, Chapter 5, “Advice from a Caterpillar”).Criminologists have long been interested in the longitudinal patterning of criminal activity over the life-course, or how and why criminal behavior begins, continues, and ends. Prominent qualitative and quantitative studies have sought to describe individual initiation, continuation, and cessation of criminal offending. For example, Quetelet's (1831) Research on the Propensity for Crime at Different Ages was one of the first large-scale studies to provide a description of the aggregate relationship between age and crime. Shaw's (1928) The Jack-Roller told the captivating story of Stanley's delinquency in Chicago at the turn of the century.
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