Explaining Life-Course Patterns of Offending Involves the Use of an Integrated

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Essay

Explaining life-course patterns of offending involves the use of an integrated theory. This integrated theory can be viewed as an elaboration of which three theories? Explain how these theories integrate to form the life-course perspective and how they explain adolescent offending.

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Definitions:

Budget Period

The specific time period for which a budget is prepared and used to forecast income and expenditure.

Financial Plan

A projection of a company’s financial statements into the future based on a series of assumptions about what the business and the environment will do. Part of a business plan.

Strategic Plan

A long-term business plan addressing broad issues of what a company’s management wants it to become and how it is to do business.

Business Plans

Detailed documents that outline the goals of a business, the strategy for achieving those goals, and the expected financial performance.