Explaining Criminal Careers

Explaining Criminal Careers

Title: Explaining Criminal Careers
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.

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