In considering life-course theory, describe how disruption promotes delinquency. Explain why you agree or disagree with this concept
What will be an ideal response?
• Disruptions in life's major transitions can be destructive and can ultimately promote long-term criminal careers.
• Those who are already at risk because of socioeconomic problems or family dysfunction are the most susceptible during these awkward transitions.
• Delinquency, according to this view, cannot be attributed to a single cause, nor does it represent a single underlying tendency.
• People are influenced by different factors as they mature. Consequently, a factor that may have an important influence at one stage of life (such as delinquent peers) may have little influence later on.
• These negative life events can become cumulative:
o As people acquire more personal deficits, the chances of acquiring additional ones increase.
• The cumulative impact of these disruptions sustains antisocial behaviors from childhood into adulthood.
• Student views will vary.
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