Explaining criminal careers : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington.
Series: Clarendon studies in criminologyPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrationsContent type:- text
- still image
- computer
- online resource
- 9780191781568 (ebook) :
- 364.30941 23
- HV6944 .M28 2012
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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