Developmental criminology and the crime decline a comparative analysis of the criminal careers of two New South Wales birth cohorts

Throughout the 1990s many countries around the world experienced the beginnings of what would later become the most significant and protracted decline in crime ever recorded. Although not a universal experience, the so-called international crime-drop was an unpredicted and unprecedented event which...

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Main Authors: Payne, Jason, Piquero, Alexis Russell (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2020
Series:Cambridge elements. Elements in criminology
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