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...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Other Authors: | , |
Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Oxford
Oxford University Press
2012, 2012
|
Series: | Clarendon studies in criminology / Clarendon studies in criminology
|
Subjects: | |
Online Access: | |
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 |
---|---|
Physical Description: | xvi, 256 p. ill |
ISBN: | 9780191781568 |