Do Initial Levels and Changes in Young People’s Prime Propensities and Criminogenic Exposure Explain Young People’s Pathways in Crime (Crime Trajectories)?

• In Event: Exploring and Explaining Pathways in Crime

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to explore whether young people’s pathways in crime (crime trajectories) can be explained by initial levels and changes in their crime propensities (personal morals, abilities to exercise self-control) and criminogenic exposure (moral contexts encouraging acts of crime).

Authors

• Kyle Treiber, University of Cambridge

• Gabriela Diana Roman, University of Cambridge

• Per-Olof Wikström, University of Cambridge