Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Deviant acts that provide immediate gratification of desires construct low self-control.
2. Acts that are exciting, risky, or thrilling induce high self-control.
3. Trajectory is the pathway or line of development of deviancy over a life span, referring to long term patterns of life behavior and marked by sequence of transitions.
4. A transition is shorter than a trajectory.
5. Sampson and Laub’s age-graded theory argued that life events do not have an effect on the likelihood to persist or desist with deviance because the quality of these life events is most important.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False

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