Explaining criminal careers : implications for justice policy /
MacLeod, John F.,
Explaining criminal careers : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington. - 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations - Clarendon studies in criminology . - Clarendon studies in criminology. .
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.
9780191781568 (ebook) : No price
Criminals--Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.
HV6944 / .M28 2012
364.30941
Explaining criminal careers : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington. - 1 online resource (xvi, 256 pages) : illustrations - Clarendon studies in criminology . - Clarendon studies in criminology. .
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.
9780191781568 (ebook) : No price
Criminals--Great Britain.
Criminal justice, Administration of--Great Britain.
HV6944 / .M28 2012
364.30941