Introduction : some advantages of developmental and life-course perspectives for the study of crime and delinquency / Terence P. Thornberry
Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offending : a complementary pair of developmental theories / Terrie E. Moffitt
Life-course contingencies in the development of adolescent antisocial behavior : a matching law approach / Rand D. Conger and Ronald L. Simons
Stability and change in crime over the life course : a strain theory explanation / Robert Agnew
A life-course theory of cumulative disadvantage and the stability of delinquency / Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub
A symbolic interactionist theory of role-transitions, role-commitments, and delinquency / Ross L. Matsueda and Karen Heimer
A generic control theory of the criminal phenomenon : the structural and dynamic statements of an integrative multilayered control theory / Marc Le Blanc
Crime and capitalization : toward a developmental theory of street crime in America / John Hagan
Developmental aspects of adult crime / Kenneth Adams
"Setting the record straight" : a response to Hagan, Gillis and Simpson / Gary F. Jensen.