Explaining criminal careers [electronic resource] : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington.
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- 9780191781568
- 364.30941 23
- HV6944 .M28 2012
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.
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