Explaining criminal careers implications for justice policy

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: MacLeod, John F. (-)
Otros Autores: Grove, Peter G., Farrington, David P.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford University Press 2012.
Colección:Oxford scholarship online.
Clarendon studies in criminology.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Sumario: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.
Notas:Description based on print version record.
Descripción Física:xvi, 256 p. : il
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice.
ISBN:9780191781568