were still considered petty and are not highly atypical for an adolescent boy.Despite these delinquent behaviors, Salvatores fate as a career criminal had not yet been sealed. At age sixteen Salvatore acquired a job at a hat factory. However, the benefits of acquiring adult social roles would not act as a means of desistence for Salvatore. The job would give Salvatore a modest living; one that provided a steady income of seven dollars a week. It was on a Friday on his way home from work that Salvatores life-course would take a turn for the worse; Not by bad luck but by a stroke of good luck. Salvatore gambled his seven-dollar weekly wage and wound up winning $244 in a game of alley craps. In turn Salvatore adopted the nickname Lucky and, instead of going to work the next day, Luciano would go to the alleys.A far cry from shoplifting and gambling, Luckys criminal career began to show a good deal of escalation by his mid teens. When an oppurtunity arose and it meant fiscal gains Lucky would take it. Up to this point all that had been available was petty crimes (e.g. theft and gambling), but drugs provided him the opportunity of a higher standard of living. The change of environment led to a dramatic shift in the crimes he would commit frequency at which he would commit them, and led to a greater deal of specialization. Lucianos daily routine found him fraternizing with the criminal element. The escalation that followed was a typical example of the continuity of antisocial behavior according to Moffitt. Typical being, biting and hitting at age 4, shoplifting and truancy at age 10, selling drugs and stealing cars at age 16 (Moffitt, 679). It should come as no surprise then that Lucky began selling drugs as a means of income. At 16 he started to sell heroin and earned from between ten and thirty dollars a day.Lucky would be incarcerated for six months in jail when he sold some heroin to an undercover police officer thus bringing ...
