Crime in the Making

Robert J. Sampson is Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor at Harvard University, Affiliated Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect. John H. Laub is Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland.

Imaginative and forthright, a well-argued book with broad theoretical and methodological implications.

• Introduction 1. Toward an Age-graded Theory of Informal Social Control 2. Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency and Follow-up Studies 3. Restoring, Supplementing, and Validating the Data 4. The Family Context of Juvenile Delinquency 5. The Role of School, Peers, and Siblings 6. Continuity in Behavior over Time 7. Adult Social Bonds and Change in Criminal Behavior 8. Comparative Models of Crime and Deviance 9. Exploring Life Histories 10. Summing Up and Looking Ahead Appendix: Interview with the Gluecks' Original Research Staff Notes References Index