Explaining Criminal Careers
            
                Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780199697243
Description: 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.