Serious offenders
Subtitle: a historical study of habitual criminals
By: Barry S. Godfrey, David J. Cox, Stephen D. Farrall
Contributors: Cox, David J.; Farrall, Stephen
Series: Clarendon studies in criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
ISBN-13: 9780199594665
Subjects: Recidivists; History
Description: "Serious Offenders: A Historical Study of Habitual Criminals examines the persistent offending careers of men and women operating in northwest England between the 1840s and 1940s. The book focuses on a group of serious and persistent offenders who as well as offending in the region, had lengthy offending careers spanning several decades in various other locations. These were highly mobile persistent serious offenders who appear not to have been so closely bound in to the processes and structures which aided desistence from offending for the vast majority of the petty offenders." -- Publisher's infornation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-232) and index.