Introduction: Some Advantages of Developmental and Life-Course Perspectives for the Study of Crime and Delinquency 1. Adolescence-Limited and Life-Course-Persistent Offending: A Complementary Pair of Developmental Theories 2. Life-Course Contingencies in the Development of Adolescent Antisocial Behavior: A Matching Law Approach 3. Stability and Change in Crime over the Life Course: A Strain Theory Explanation 4. A Life-Course Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency 5. A Symbolic Interactionist Theory of Role-Transitions, Role-Commitments, and Delinquency 6. A Generic Control Theory of the Criminal Phenomenon: The Structural and Dynamic Statements of an Integrative Multilayered Control Theory 7. Crime and Capitalization: Toward a Developmental Theory of Street Crime in America 8. Developmental Aspects of Adult Crime