Title
Explaining criminal careers [electronic resource] : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington.
ISBN
9780191781568 (electronic book)
Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : ilustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697243 doi
Call Number
HV6944 .M28 2012eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.30941
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.
Note
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.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note
Open access.
Source of Description
Description based on print version record.
Series
Clarendon studies in criminology.
1. Criminal career research, mathematical models, and testing quantitative predictions from theories
2. An analysis of the offenders index
3. The theory and a simple model
4. Criminal careers of serious, less serious, and trivial offenders
5. Is age the primary influence on offending?
6. Characteristics of individuals
7. Applications for managing the criminal justice system
8. Criminal policy implications
9. Summary and conclusions
Appendix: mathematical notes.
