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.