Explaining criminal careers implications for justice policy /
MacLeod, John F.
Explaining criminal careers implications for justice policy / [electronic resource] : John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) : ill. - Clarendon studies in criminology .
Using the Home Office Offenders Index, a unique database containing records of all criminal 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.
Specialized.
9780191781568 (ebook) : No price
Criminals--Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.
HV6944 / .M28 2012
Explaining criminal careers implications for justice policy / [electronic resource] : John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012. - 1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) : ill. - Clarendon studies in criminology .
Using the Home Office Offenders Index, a unique database containing records of all criminal 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.
Specialized.
9780191781568 (ebook) : No price
Criminals--Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.
HV6944 / .M28 2012
