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Blumstein A, (2016) From Incapacitation to Criminal Careers. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(3), 291-305. 14 p.
Carlsson C, (2012) Using ‘Turning Points’ to Understand Processes of Change in Offending, British Journal of Criminology, 52: 1-16. 16 p.
Carlsson C, (2012) Processes of Intermittency in Criminal Careers: Notes from a Swedish Study on Life Courses and Crime. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 57(8): 913-938. 25 p.
Cheng TL, Solomon BS, (2014) Translating life course theory to clinical practice to address health disparities. Maternal Child Health Journal, 18(2):389–395, 6 p.
DeLisi M, Piquero A, (2011) New frontiers in criminal careers research, 2000-2011: A state-of-the-art review. Journal of Criminal Justice, (39), 289-301, 12 p.
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Farrington D P, MacLeod J F, Piquero A R, (2016) Mathematical Models of Criminal Careers: Deriving and Testing Quantitative Predictions. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(3): 336-355. 19 p.
Gottfredson M R, Hirschi T, (2016) The Career Criminal Perspective as an Explanation of Crime and a Guide to Crime Control Policy: The View from General Theories of Crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(3): 406-419. 13 p.
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Piquero N L, Benson M L, (2004) White-collar crime and criminal careers: specifying a trajectory of punctuated situational offending. Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, 20: 148-165. 18 p.
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Piquero A, Farrington D, Blumstein A, (2007) Key Issues in Criminal Career Research. New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 217 p.
Piquero A, Jennings W G, Barnes J C, (2012) Violence in criminal careers: A review of the literature from a developmental life-course perspective. Aggression and Violent Behaviour, (17): 171-179. 9 p.
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Sullivan C J, Piquero A R, (2016) The Criminal Career Concept: Past, Present, and Future. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 53(3): 420-442. 22 p.
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Additional articles from scientific journals will also be included, approx. 200 p.
Criminology: Criminal Careers and Life Course Perspectives
About the course
Course content
The aim of the course is for the student to acquire deeper theoretical and methodological knowledge of special interest to be able to understand the development of individual and deviant life courses. Integrated perspectives that address risks and causes of crime and antisocial behaviour in order to sustain positive health and behaviour over the life course are specifically addressed. An additional aim of the course is for the student to acquire knowledge on how the life course perspective can be used to design interventions, treatment and care strategies.
The course addresses criminological research on developmental paths of criminal careers. In the course, explanatory models of differential paths of general antisocial behaviour and of specific types of crimes in national and international contexts are presented. The course also addresses how life course perspective is used within criminology, and other research areas, as well as how different factors occurring at separate points in time under a life course effects the development of antisocial behaviour and ill health. Further, how the life course perspective can be used to design interventions, treatment and care strategies is discussed.
Syllabus and course literature
You can find a list of literature in the syllabus, along with other details about the course.
Entry requirements and selection
Entry requirements
A bachelor’s degree with a major in social- or behaviour sciences or medicine and English 6.
Selection
100% University credits completed
Course literature
Course evaluation
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
