"Crime Places" have recently emerged as an important focus of crime prevention theory and practice. Interest develops in part from the underlying assumptions of recent theoretical perspectives that focus on opportunity structures for crime. Building upon these theoretical innovations a number of studies ...
Capturing the impact of membership turnover in small groups via latent class growth analysis. Gr Dyn: Theory, Res Pract.2009;13(2):120-132. doi:10.1037/a0014095.Google ScholarCrossref 30. Muthén BO, Muthén LM. Mplus (Version 7.11). Los Angeles, CA: Muthén & Muthén; 2012. 31. ...
Life Course Criminology Important Considerations for GBTM In sum, because no extant theory clearly or accurately outlines how manydevelopmental trajectoriesshould exist in a population, GBTM is an asset for scholars attempting to identify such patterns and further developtheoretical propositions. The followi...
This paper investigates the use of B-spline smoothers as an alternative to polynomials when estimating trajectory shape in group-based trajectory models. T
The attachment theory posits that experiences with primary caregivers provide the basis to develop internal models about the self, the world, and relationships that are foundational for healthy child outcomes (Bowlby, 1978). When children are removed from their family of origin by the child protectio...
CriminologyEthnic studies Delinquency| A trajectory analysis of African-American males UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE BrownWyattThe initial goals of this study include locating and identifying the taxonomic groups mentioned in Moffitt's (1993) (i.e. life-course persistent offenders, adolescent-limited offenders...
The findings provide some support of opportunity theory's applicability in explaining distinctive patterns of teacher victimization trajectories as several theoretically informed factors were found to be related to class membership. Overall, the findings have demonstrated the importance of understanding ...
According to the stage-environment fit theory (Eccles and Midgley, 1989, Eccles and Roeser, 2011), changes in students’ academic well-being might be due to a mismatch between the needs of the individual (student) and the opportunities offered by the environment (school). Such changes may be...