“We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future”: The time capsule of developmental and life-course criminology

Piquero, Alex R.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2022.101932

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“…For over a quarter of a century, developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) has captured the imagination of criminologists (Farrington et al, 2018; Piquero, 2023). Theoretical, empirical, and policy-related work with respect to the ebb and flow of criminal activity over the life-course blossomed in the early 1990s in large part due to a range of frameworks that were built on charting not just the nature of criminal activity throughout life, but also the various risk and protective factors over time that could be related to changes in criminal activity and desistance from crime.…”

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A Developmental and Life-Course Approach to Further Understanding of the Nature and Causes of Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide

Narvey,

Kaukinen,

Piquero

et al. 2024

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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The current paper explores the theoretical and empirical capacity of developmental and life-course criminology (DLC) to further our understanding of non-lethal intimate partner violence (IPV) and femicide. Drawing on Sampson and Laub’s age-graded theory and Moffitt’s dual taxonomy, the paper delves into empirical research that has identified and examined the overlap between general offending and IPV, highlighting how these DLC theoretical frameworks could provide insight into non-lethal IPV and femicide. We also outline the ways in which these DLC perspectives are challenged to fully address the gendered nature of IPV and less able to provide an empirical and theoretical understanding of the role of power and control by men over their women partners. We then place these frameworks within the global impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender-based violence, including femicide. While the COVID-19 lockdowns increased vulnerability to IPV and increased homicide in the United States, the expected rise in femicide did not materialize—at least within the United States, prompting questions about the extent to which existing criminological theories are able to provide a framework for these types of crime trends during unprecedented events. We examine the way non-lethal and lethal IPV are shaped by different factors as outlined in Moffitt’s dual taxonomy. The pandemic for example did not create increased psychopathy (i.e., affective and personality disorders) associated with the risk for femicide, but the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent lockdowns did create increased economic and family stressors, which placed many at-risk women and children in further social isolation, and reduced access to victim services. We conclude a need for further theoretical development surrounding femicide, integrating developmental and life-course perspectives, thereby emphasizing the need for refined frameworks to address the intricate dynamics of violence against women globally.

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A Developmental and Life-Course Approach to Further Understanding of the Nature and Causes of Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide

Narvey,

Kaukinen,

Piquero

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Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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“…Analysis of sociohistorical change has recently become the focus of life-course criminology, with the use of multi-cohort study designs (Piquero 2022). Such an approach has been adopted because of the suggested limitations of single-cohort follow-up studies, which are considered to prevent analysis of historical change, as all participants of those studies experience changes at the same time and age (Farrall 2021;.…”

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Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course

Laine,

Aaltonen,

Myrskylä

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Social Change, Cohort Effects, and Dynamics of the Age–Crime Relationship: Age and Crime in South Korea from 1967 to 2011

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“We study the past to understand the present; we understand the present to guide the future”: The time capsule of developmental and life-course criminology

Cited by 7 publications

References 54 publications

A Developmental and Life-Course Approach to Further Understanding of the Nature and Causes of Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide

A Developmental and Life-Course Approach to Further Understanding of the Nature and Causes of Intimate Partner Violence and Femicide

Sociohistorical context and post-prison life course

Social Change, Cohort Effects, and Dynamics of the Age–Crime Relationship: Age and Crime in South Korea from 1967 to 2011

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