Search for dissertations about: "life course crime"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words life course crime.

  2. 1. The female offender : patterning of antisocial and criminal behaviour over the life-course

    Author : Frida Andersson; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : criminal career; female offending; trajectories; sex differences; adult onset; chronics; life-course;

    Abstract : The studies included in the thesis illustrate the patterning of female offending over the life course. The overarching aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the female offender and of the heterogeneity in female criminal offending trajectories over the life course, and also of factors that differentiate between these trajectories. READ MORE

  4. 2. Maintaining Desistance : Barriers and Expectations in Women's Desistance from Crime

    Author : Robin Gålnander; Ingrid Lander; Anders Nilsson; Fergus McNeill; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Women s Desistance; Criminalisation; Longitudinal Research; Qualitaitive Interviews; Life-Course Criminology; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : Maintaining desistance is about struggling. It is about leaving a destructive and unwanted way of life behind in pursuit of something else, something unknown, something 'normal'. READ MORE

  5. 3. Criminal Careers in the Long Run : Patterns and Predictions of Criminal Convictions across Age, Time, and Gender

    Author : Fredrik Sivertsson; Anders Nilsson; Olof Bäckman; Torbjørn Skardhamar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Criminal career; Recidivism; Life course; Longitudinal; Birth cohort; Gender; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Abstract : Why is it that a small proportion of the population accounts for the majority of crime? This question has stimulated a great deal of theoretical and methodological controversy in criminology. In essence, the debate is rooted in different theoretical underpinnings of continuity and change in crime, and the extent to which it is possible to foresee a life of crime by zeroing in on at-risk juvenile offenders. READ MORE

  6. 4. Violence through the life cycle : A public health problem

    Author : Niclas Olofsson; Kent Lindqvist; Ingela Danielsson; Staffan Jansson; Linköpings universitet; []
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    Abstract : Background: Violence has probably always been part of the human experience. Its impact can be seen, in various forms, in all parts of the world. In 1996, WHO:s Forty-Ninth World Health Assembly adopted a resolution , declaring violence a major and growing public health problem around the world. READ MORE

  7. 5. Adverse life events, psychiatric morbidity, and mortality : epidemiological studies of socioeconomic inequalities from a life course perspective

    Author : Emma Björkenstam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The overall aim with this dissertation was to increase the knowledge on the association between adverse life events, and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, and the role of socioeconomic position from a life course perspective. In Study I we examined the association between socioeconomic position, adverse childhood experiences, and psychotropic medication in young adulthood, using parental educational level as measure of socioeconomic position. READ MORE