CRJU 591C Lecture 4: Trajectories Lecture Outline 1.30.18
5 Jul 2018
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Trajectories
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Trajectory: tries to capture frequency of participation (individual rate of offending)
Life course path you take overtime
Chronic offenders:
-Non-white
- Come from a lower socioeconomic background
- Experience more family moves (residential mobility)
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- Have lower IQs
- Have fewer school grades completed
- Exhibit more school discipline problems
- Commit more serious offenses
- Begin criminal careers early in the life course (early age of onset)
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What does this (the group-based approach) mean? Take offenders and group them based on
frequency of offending. Tendency to group to understand something.
1. Explaining offending (identifying its causes) probably requires we develop separate
accounts for each of the forms of offenders
What might explain a certain group may not be the same as another group (chronic offender vs
adolescent offender)
2. If different factors produce different groups, then we will be better positioned to apply
interventions matching the person-type.
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Document Summary
Trajectory: tries to capture frequency of participation (individual rate of offending) Begin criminal careers early in the life course (early age of onset) Take offenders and group them based on frequency of offending. Tendency to group to understand something: explaining offending (identifying its causes) probably requires we develop separate accounts for each of the forms of offenders. What might explain a certain group may not be the same as another group (chronic offender vs adolescent offender: if different factors produce different groups, then we will be better positioned to apply interventions matching the person-type. We have been able to retrospectively identify these groups after the fact, but before their life course plays out we can"t accurately predict the group they are going to land in. As long as there such thing as the ability to change there is no way that we can identify prior (group based approach).
