Explaining criminal careers implications for justice policy
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 c...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press
2012.
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| Edición: | First edition |
| Colección: | Open Research Library ebooks.
Clarendon studies in criminology. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44543244*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Criminal career research, mathematical models, and testing quantitative predictions from theories
- An analysis of the offenders index
- The theory and a simple model
- Criminal careers of serious, less serious, and trivial offenders
- Is age the primary influence on offending?
- Characteristics of individuals
- Applications for managing the criminal justice system
- Criminal policy implications
- Summary and conclusions
- Appendix: mathematical notes.
