Title | : | Explaining Criminal Careers |
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Author | : | John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove & David P. Farrington |
Release | : | 2012-08-23 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Law, Books, Professional & Technical, Nonfiction, Social Science, Science & Nature, Mathematics |
Size | : | 15992259 |
Using the Home Office Offenders Index, a unique database containing records of all criminal (standard list) convictions in England and Wales since 1963, this simple but influential theory makes exact quantitative predictions about criminal careers and age-crime curves, in particular the prison population contingent on a given sentencing policy. |