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=== Age distribution of crime === Two theories about why the crime peaks around the late teenage years and early twenties are called the developmental theory and life-course theory, and both involve attachment theory. Developmental perspectives argue that individuals who have disrupted childhood attachments will have criminal careers that continue long into adulthood.<ref name=":4">{{cite journal | vauthors = Moffitt TE, Caspi A | title = Childhood predictors differentiate life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways among males and females | url = https://archive.org/details/sim_development-and-psychopathology_spring-2001_13_2/page/355 | journal = Development and Psychopathology | volume = 13 | issue = 2 | pages = 355β75 | date = 2001 | pmid = 11393651 | doi = 10.1017/S0954579401002097 | s2cid = 29182035 }}</ref> [[Life course approach|Life course perspectives]] argue that relationships at every stage of the life course can influence an individual's likelihood of committing crimes.<ref name=":5">{{cite journal |vauthors=Sampson RJ, Laub JH |date=2005 |title=A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime |journal=Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |volume=602 |pages=12β45 |doi=10.1177/0002716205280075 |s2cid=45146032}}</ref>
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