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Trajectories And Long-Term Patterns Of Development

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The recognition that involves deviant behavior differs over time and has led to the appearance of life-course perspectives. There are two concepts that are particularly important in their developmental formulation and they are trajectories and transitions (Humphrey & Schmalleger, 2012). Trajectories or pathways or lives of development throughout life. These long-term patterns of behavior may include work, life, marriage, parenthood, or even criminal behavior (Sampson & Laub, 1993). Transitions are short-term events that are embedded in the trajectories which include getting married, starting a new place of employment, having a child, or getting put in prison (Sampson & Laub,1993). Life-course trajectories that involve persistent behaviors could

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