Explaining Criminal Careers Implications for Justice Policy
, by MacLeod, John F.; Grove, Peter G.; Farrington, David P.- ISBN: 9780199697243 | 0199697248
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 10/25/2012
Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple but influential theory of crime, conviction and reconviction. The assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of cohort samples extracted from the Home Office Offenders Index - a unique database which contains records of all criminal (standard list) convictions in England and Wales since 1963. In particular, the theory explains the well-known Age/Crime curve.