Juvenile Delinquency: Two Types of Criminal Careers

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This video covers the developmental taxonomy by psychologist Terrie Moffitt, who proposed that there are two types of juvenile delinquents: life course persistent offenders and adolescence limited offenders. In developmental psychology and criminology, this idea has been very influential, and I’ll go through the fundamentals.
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