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    Developmental theory of crime and delinquency aims to integrate knowledge about individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community, and situational influences on offending across the lifespan. It assumes that people develop through predictable stages of life, and some individuals are headed toward antisocial pathways while others follow prosocial paths. Developmental theories seek to understand the factors that explain the onset and continuation of criminal careers, as well as why some offenders persist while others desist from crime as they mature. A key strength is the optimism that criminal propensity and behavior can change later in life, while a weakness is that integrating diverse theories risks contradictions and lack of original ideas.

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    Developmental theory of crime and delinquency aims to integrate knowledge about individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community, and situational influences on offending across the lifespan. It assumes that people develop through predictable stages of life, and some individuals are headed toward antisocial pathways while others follow prosocial paths. Developmental theories seek to understand the factors that explain the onset and continuation of criminal careers, as well as why some offenders persist while others desist from crime as they mature. A key strength is the optimism that criminal propensity and behavior can change later in life, while a weakness is that integrating diverse theories risks contradictions and lack of original ideas.

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    This theory of crime causation briefly discusses the frameworks of developmental theory of crime

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    Developmental theory of crime and delinquency aims to integrate knowledge about individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community, and situational influences on offending across the lifespan. It assumes that people develop through predictable stages of life, and some individuals are headed toward antisocial pathways while others follow prosocial paths. Developmental theories seek to understand the factors that explain the onset and continuation of criminal careers, as well as why some offenders persist while others desist from crime as they mature. A key strength is the optimism that criminal propensity and behavior can change later in life, while a weakness is that integrating diverse theories risks contradictions and lack of original ideas.

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    Overview

    Developmental Theory of crime and delinquency is a type of integrative


    criminology in that it is concerned to document and explain within
    individual changes in offending throughout life. This theory aims to integrate
    knowledge about individual, family, peer, school, neighborhood, community,
    and situational influences on offending, and to integrate key elements of
    earlier theories such as strain, social learning, control, and differential
    association.

    Key Concepts and Assumptions


    Developmental theory assume that people grow or develop as humans in
    predictable ways, going through standard stages of life. Most youngsters are
    on a prosocial or normal pathway, but others are not; they are headed into
    crime. Even here, these youngsters also grow up or develop in a predictable
    way albeit one that is antisocial.
    Developmental theories of crime focus on how individual offenders lives
    unfold to influence crime patterns across the life course. Crime is seen as a
    dynamic developmental process that begins in childhood and occurs across
    the
    Developmental theories seek to identify, describe, and understand the
    developmental factors that explain the onset and continuation of a criminal
    career. As a group, they do not ask the relatively simple question: Why do
    people commit crime? Instead, they focus on more complex issues: Why do
    some offenders persist in criminal careers, whereas others desist from or
    alter their criminal activity as they mature? Why do some people continually
    escalate their criminal involvement, whereas others slow down and turn their
    loves around? Are all criminals similar in their offending patterns, or are there
    different types of offenders and paths to offending? Developmental theories
    not only want to know why people enter a criminal way of life but also either,
    once they do, they are able to alter the trajectory of their criminal
    involvement.
    Strength: Developmental Theories strength is optimism that later in life,
    criminal propensity and behavior can change. In other words, in terms of
    what this means for the real lives of offenders and policy makers and
    criminal justice workers is that this approach suggest that we have a reason
    to be reasonably optimistic about the prospects of getting individuals out of
    crime and encouraging them to go straight.

    Weaknesses and Limitations: in terms of the challenges and limitations,


    the theoretical basis of the work of developmental criminologists has been
    questioned by some. The favored focus of integrating lots of different
    theoretical ideas and approaches means that it is not always clear whether
    the developmental theorist is offering anything new or original, or whether
    they are simply choosing a pick n mix of the best ideas from other theorist
    but without considering the tensions and contradictions in trying to
    amalgamate disparate theories.
    Opportunity: The developmental theory of crime and delinquency, one of
    the many integrative approaches to crime causation, gives criminal offender
    an opportunity of cure, so to speak, via the prospects of rehabilitation
    program aimed at finding job for offenders and encouraging them to change
    their behavior.
    Threat: The danger of this theory, as detractors of this assumptions, is that
    not all offenders can be reformed as other and putting them back to the
    mainstream society may just create havoc and imperils society.De

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