Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals"

Type

Book

Authors

National Research Council

ISBN 10

0309036844

ISBN 13

9780309036849

Tags

Law, Social Sciences

Description

By focusing attention on individuals rather than on aggregates, this book takes a novel approach to studying criminal behavior. It develops a framework for collecting information about individual criminal careers and their parameters, reviews existing knowledge about criminal career dimensions, presents models of offending patterns, and describes how criminal career information can be used to develop and refine criminal justice policies. In addition, an agenda for future research on criminal careers is presented. - from Amzon

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