Question

Laub and Sampson identify five aspects to the process of desistance during adulthood. Identify and briefly explain these five aspects, using at least 250 words.

Answer 1

• Sampson and Laub turning points if meaningful social bonds are established during adulthood, they can function as a turning point that leads offenders into conformity
• 1.Structural turning points set the stage for change
• 2.These structural events create social bonds that increase the informal controls over offenders.They also recognize,however,that these bonds can be conduit for social support,which in turn can foster attachments and indirect control.
• 3. As offenders move into marriages and jobs, their daily routine activities change from unsturctured and focused on deviant location,like bars to structured and filled with prosocial responsibilities.As a result offenders are cut off from deviant associates and othr bad influences
• 4.This changed, prosocial lifestyle creates desistance by default.Offenders wake up one day and find their lives have been transformed and that criminal activity has become an increasingly distant reality.
• 5.Individuals still exercise human agency