Preface: Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub

Section One: A Life-Course View

A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime
Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub

Offender Classifications and Treatment Effects in Developmental Criminology:
A Propensity/Event Consideration
Michael R. Gottfredson

Explaining When Arrests End for Serious Juvenile Offenders:
Comment on the Sampson/Laub Study
Lee N. Robins

When Prediction Fails: From Crime-Prone Boys to Heterogeneity in Adulthood
Robert J. Sampson and John H. Laub

Section Two: Group-Based Trajectory Modeling

What has Been Learned from Group-Based Trajectory Modeling? Examples from Physical Aggression and Other Problem Behaviors
Daniel S. Nagin and Richard E. Tremblay

Developmental Trajectory Modeling: A View from Developmental Psychopathology
Barbara Maughan

How Do We Study "What Happens Next?"
Stephen W. Raudenbush

Further Reflections on Modeling and Analyzing Developmental Trajectories:
A Response to Maughan and Raudenbush
Daniel S. Nagin and Richard E. Tremblay

Section Three: Multiple Patterns of Offending

Explaining Multiple Patterns of Offending across the Life Course and across Generations
Terence P. Thornberry

Making Sense of Crime and the Life Course
D. Wayne Osgood

Explaining Patterns of Offending across the Life Course: Comments on Interactional Theory and Recent Tests Based on the RYDS-RIS Data
Janet Lauritsen

Notes on Theory Construction and Theory Testing: A Response to Osgood and Lauritsen
Terence P. Thornberry

Section Four: Final Thoughts

An Overview of the Symposium and Some Next Steps
Alfred Blumstein

Book Review Essay –
The Complex Dynamics of the Onset, the Development, and the Termination of a Criminal Career: Lessons on Repeat Offenders to be Drawn from Recent Longitudinal Studies in Criminology
Hans-Jürgen Kerner

Section Five: Quick Read Synopsis

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