Laub and sampson identify life events that enable adult offenders to desist from crime. accordingly, they identify transitions as short-term events embedded in

I believe the answer is: Trajectories

Trajectories refers to the prediction of a certain things that might happen in the future.

The prediction that made in trajectories would be made by analyzing the data that exist today. In this context, we can predict whether adult offenders could remain clean after being released based on the data from previous offenders.