Explaining criminal careers [electronic resource] : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington.

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MacLeod, John F

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TextLanguage: İngilizce Series: Clarendon studies in criminologyPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) : illISBN:

9780191781568 (ebook) :

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HV6944 .M28 2012

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Summary: 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.

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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.