Imaginative and forthright, a well-argued book with broad theoretical and methodological implications.
-- John Modell American Journal of Sociology
Crime in the Making deserves widespread attention.
-- Joan McCord Contemporary Sociology
The book’s logical organization, the authors’ parsimonious explanation of key concepts and theoretical propositions, and the comprehensive presentation of their findings interact to produce a volume that possesses a high degree of clarity and readability… Crime in the Making should be read by all developmental criminologists and those interested in the study of criminal careers.
-- Douglas Yearwood Criminologist
This book will be widely read and cited, and it deserves to be. [The authors] have carefully crafted a model which addresses both stability and change in delinquency and crime over the life course, and they have done an impeccable job of testing it.
-- Candace Kruttschnitt Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
Hard-headed quantitative variable-oriented statistics are skillfully blended with qualitative person-oriented studies of individual life histories. A ‘must’ for anyone interested in either criminology or life-span development, and of great interest to a much wider group of readers. Crime in the Making is destined to become a classic.
-- Michael Rutter, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London
No previous work offers such a systematic and theoretically informed view of delinquent and criminal involvements from adolescence through adulthood.
-- John Hagan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill