TY - GEN 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. DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697243 DO - doi AB - 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. T1 - Explaining criminal careersimplications for justice policy / DA - 2012. CY - Oxford : AU - MacLeod, John F. AU - Grove, Peter G. AU - Farrington, David P. CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - HV6944 PB - Oxford University Press, PP - Oxford : PY - 2012. ID - 771686 KW - Criminals KW - Crime KW - Criminal justice, Administration of SN - 9780191781568 TI - Explaining criminal careersimplications for justice policy / LK - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697243.001.0001 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697243.001.0001 ER -