TY - BOOK AU - MacLeod,John F. AU - Grove,Peter G. AU - Farrington,David P. TI - Explaining criminal careers: implications for justice policy T2 - Clarendon studies in criminology SN - 9780191781568 (ebook) : AV - HV6944 .M28 2012 PY - 2012/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Criminals KW - Great Britain KW - Criminal justice, Administration of N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697243.001.0001 ER -