Explaining criminal careers [electronic resource] : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington.
By: MacLeod, John F
Contributor(s): Grove, Peter G | Farrington, David P
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TextSeries: Clarendon studies in criminologyPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) : illISBN: 9780191781568 (ebook) :Subject(s): Criminals -- Great Britain | Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great BritainAdditional physical formats: Print version :: No titleLOC classification: HV6944 | .M28 2012Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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.
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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