Desistance Across the Life Course: Editorial Introduction

A Life Course Perspective on Spirituality and Desistance from Crime

Spirituality has become a part of many drug and alcohol treatment strategies, and faithbased programming is also common within prison settings. Yet research on religion and crime linkages has often relied on general youth or adult samples, or included a short time line for gauging positive effects. Life course researchers focused on serious delinquents, in turn, have often emphasized other fact...

Research Summary: Desistance and Developmental Life Course Theories

Education Across the life course

There is a huge demand for high-quality longitudinal educational research in Germany. In particular, there is a clear need for both analytical and methodological progress in order to understand educational pathways through the life course and how they lead to different outcomes. This paper identifies the theoretical and methodological challenges of studying education across the life course and ...

Editorial: Face Perception across the Life-Span

Faces convey information that is of great importance for humans as social beings. The ability to process information from faces undergoes significant changes across the life-span (e.g., Germine et al., 2011), and shows considerable individual differences (e.g., Wilhelm et al., 2010). Average developmental trends and changes of individual differences in face perception across the life-span arise...

Marital coitus across the life course.

It remains unclear whether the frequency of marital coitus does in fact decline universally across the life course, what shape that decay normally takes, and what best accounts for it: increasing marriage duration, women's age or age of their partners. Using cross-sectional Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of 91,744 non-abstaining women in their first marriage, a generalized linear mode...