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Explaining criminal careers [electronic resource] : implications for justice policy / John F. MacLeod, Peter G. Grove, David P. Farrington.
Contributor(s): Grove, Peter G | Farrington, David P
.Series: Clarendon studies in criminology: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 256 p.) : ill.ISBN: 9780191781568.Subject(s): Criminals -- Great Britain | Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain | True Crime | Social services & welfare, criminologyAdditional Physical Form: Print version : 9780199697243DDC classification: 364.30941 Online resources: Oxford scholarship online 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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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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Description based on print version record.