Crime is a phenomenon that is strongly linked to certain phases of life, not least adolescence or early adulthood - after which many people stop their crime. Why is it like that? And why are there a small number of individuals who continue to commit crimes for much longer than that?
Through both quantitative and qualitative studies, life course criminological studies examine ways into and out of crime. Life course criminology has in a relatively short time become one of the most prominent and influential research fields in criminology and touches on several central scientific core questions: is the individual static or dynamic? Is the reason for the individual's action mainly in biology or in social environments - and how would integrated explanatory models, so-called "Biosocial", look?