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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2012, 2012
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| Series: | Clarendon studies in criminology / Clarendon studies in criminology
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| Collection: | Oxford University Press - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xvi, 256 p. ill |
| ISBN: | 9780191781568 |