Explaining Criminal Careers Implications for Justice Policy |
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| Author:
| MacLeod, John F.
Farrington, David
Grove, Peter |
| ISBN: | 978-0-19-164524-2 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $486.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.