caa a22 4500 463173708 CHVBK 20180406164820.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10612-007-9024-6 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10612-007-9024-6 Barry Monica Glasgow School of Social Work and Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, G13 1PP, Glasgow, Scotland, UK aut Youth offending and youth transitions: the power of capital in influencing change [Elektronische Daten] [Monica Barry] Neither the literature on offending nor that on desistance adequately explains the short-term nature of youth offending, young people's propensity to desist from offending as they reach early adulthood and the importance of youth transitions in helping or hindering young people's access to legitimate and conventional opportunities and responsibilities. It is suggested in this article that the three phases of offending—onset, maintenance and desistance—run parallel courses with the three phases of youth transitions—childhood, youth and adulthood and that both these processes are influenced by discrepancies in levels of capital for young people at each stage. In a recent Scottish study of desistance, Bourdieu's concepts of capital are used to demonstrate the commonalities between youth offending and youth transitions and to better understand young people's search for integration and recognition—whether this be through offending or conventionality. The article concludes that the concepts of capital and youth transitions could both be employed more usefully in the field of criminology to explain the transient nature of offending in youth and the greater likelihood of desistance once legitimate and sustainable opportunities are found to spend as well as to accumulate capital in early adulthood. Springer Science + Business Media B.V., 2007 Desistance nationallicence Capital nationallicence Youth transitions nationallicence Social recognition nationallicence Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/2(2007-06-01), 185-198 1205-8629 15:2<185 2007 15 10612 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9024-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10612-007-9024-6 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Barry Monica Glasgow School of Social Work and Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, G13 1PP, Glasgow, Scotland, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Critical Criminology Springer Netherlands 15/2(2007-06-01), 185-198 1205-8629 15:2<185 2007 15 10612 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer