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Is Emerging Adulthood Influencing Moffitt's Developmental Taxonomy? Adding the "Prolonged" Adolescent Offender.

Christopher Salvatore¹, Travis Taniguchi, Wayne N Welsh

¹Montclair State University.

Western Criminology Review

|November 9, 2013

Summary

Emerging adulthood influences offender trajectories. The "prolonged adolescent" offender, aged 18-25, struggles with adult roles, with education, economic instability, and parental attachment predicting criminal offending and drug use.

Keywords:

Emerging Adulthood crime drug use life-course criminology prolonged adolescent offender

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Criminology
Developmental Psychology
Sociology

Background:

Offender trajectories are well-researched, but the impact of emerging adulthood is understudied.
Emerging adulthood (ages 18-25) is a critical life stage characterized by delayed social role transitions.
This study introduces the

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the influence of emerging adulthood on offending trajectories.
To introduce and define the

Main Methods:

Utilized data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.
Analyzed the relationship between social bonds, turning points, and offending.
Investigated low-level criminal offending and drug use in emerging adults.

Main Results:

Education, economic instability, and parental attachment significantly predicted offending and drug use.
Indicators of traditional turning points and social bonds were associated with reduced criminal activity.
The

Conclusions:

Emerging adulthood is a key period for understanding persistent low-level offending.
Social and economic factors during emerging adulthood are crucial for desistance from crime.
Interventions targeting education, economic stability, and parental attachment may reduce offending in this age group.