Understanding Criminal Careers
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Understanding Criminal Careers
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Author : Keith Soothill
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Understanding Criminal Careers written by Keith Soothill and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Social Science categories.
The study of criminal careers is of increasing interest in criminology. It is now generally recognised that it is important to try to understand criminal behaviour across the life-course rather than focusing on fragmented incidents which provide only a partial picture. This is an accessible text which clarifies the crucial theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of criminal careers. It focuses on some major longitudinal studies discussing the onset, persistence, desistance and the duration of a criminal career. The important topics of prediction, risk and specialisation are addressed. The challenging question of 'When do ex-offenders become like non-offenders?' points a way forward. The book concludes by proposing an even more ambitious approach to the topic of criminal careers.
Explaining Criminal Careers
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Author : John F. MacLeod
language : en
Publisher: Clarendon Studies in Criminolo
Release Date : 2012-08-23
Explaining Criminal Careers written by John F. MacLeod and has been published by Clarendon Studies in Criminolo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-23 with Law categories.
Using the Home Office Offenders Index, a unique database containing records of all criminal (standard list) 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.
Understanding Criminal Careers In Organised Crime Electronic Resource
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
Understanding Criminal Careers In Organised Crime Electronic Resource written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with categories.
Explaining Criminal Careers
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Author : John F. MacLeod
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Explaining Criminal Careers written by John F. MacLeod and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Crime categories.
Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple quantitative theory of crime, conviction and reconviction, the assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of cohort samples drawn from the “UK Home Office” Offenders Index (OI). Mathematical models based on the theory, together with population trends, are used to make: exact quantitative predictions of features of criminal careers; aggregate crime levels; the prison population; and to explain the age-crime curve, alternative explanations are shown not to be supported by the data. Previous research is reviewed, clearly identifying the foundations of the current work. Using graphical techniques to identify mathematical regularities in the data, recidivism (risk) and frequency (rate) of conviction are analysed and modelled. These models are brought together to identify three categories of offender: high-risk / high-rate, high-risk / low-rate and low-risk / low-rate. The theory is shown to rest on just 6 basic assumptions. Within this theoretical framework the seriousness of offending, specialisation or versatility in offence types and the psychological characteristics of offenders are all explored suggesting that the most serious offenders are a random sample from the risk/rate categories but that those with custody later in their careers are predominantly high-risk/high-rate. In general offenders are shown to be versatile rather than specialist and can be categorised using psychological profiles. The policy implications are drawn out highlighting the importance of conviction in desistance from crime and the absence of any additional deterrence effect of imprisonment. The use of the theory in evaluation of interventions is demonstrated.
Exploring And Understanding Careers In Criminal Justice
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Author : Matthew J. Sheridan
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2016-01-21
Exploring And Understanding Careers In Criminal Justice written by Matthew J. Sheridan and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-21 with Business & Economics categories.
This book explores the criminal justice career landscape by providing a glimpse into the different careers and advice on how to prepare to enter those career fields.
Confessions Of A Dying Thief
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Author : Darrell J. Steffensmeier
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-07-12
Confessions Of A Dying Thief written by Darrell J. Steffensmeier and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-12 with True Crime categories.
*Recipient of the American Society of Criminology's 2006 Michael J. Hindelang Award for a book, published within the past three calendar years, that is "the most outstanding contribution to research in criminology." *Nominated for the 2007 Outstanding Book Award of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Sam Goodman, was a long-time thief, fence, and quasi-legitimate businessman. He had a criminal career that spanned fifty years, beginning in his mid-teens and ending with his death when he was in his mid-sixties. Confessions of a Dying Thief is an in-depth ethnographic study of Sam and his world based on continuous contact with him for many years, on multiple interviews with his network of associates in crime and business, and on a series of interviews with him shortly before he died. The book updates and greatly expands the case study of Sam Goodman's fencing activity found in Steffensmeier's award-winning 1986 book The Fence: In the Shadow of Two Worlds. It combines Sam's colorful narrative accounts with substantive commentary by the authors to provide a more nuanced portrayal of criminal careers, illegal enterprise, and the broad landscape comprising the entity called "crime." To more fully understand pathways into and out of crime as well as the social organization of illegal enterprise, the authors propose an integrative learning-opportunity-commitment framework that combines differential association/social learning theory and an extended conceptualization of criminal opportunity with a three-fold theory of commitment to crime. This framework offers an integrated and more complete way of understanding mechanisms that underlie criminal offending and criminal careers. It also recognizes the complexity and scope of the criminal landscape and its embeddedness in the fabric of the larger society, including its criminal justice system. Sam's illness and death are a sobering backdrop th
Criminal Careers And Career Criminals
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Author : National Research Council
language : en
Publisher: National Academies Press
Release Date : 1986-02-01
Criminal Careers And Career Criminals written by National Research Council and has been published by National Academies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-02-01 with Law categories.
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.
Continuities And Changes In Criminal Careers
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Author : Christoffer Carlsson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Continuities And Changes In Criminal Careers written by Christoffer Carlsson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
The best predictor of future criminal behavior is past criminal behavior. At the same time, the vast majority of people who engage in crime are teenagers and stop offending with age. Explaining these empirical findings has been the main task of life-course criminology, and contributing to an understanding of how and why offenders continue their criminal careers once they have started, and how and why they stop, is also the purpose of this dissertation. To do this, the dissertation studies a number of facets of the criminal career: the importance of childhood risk factors (Paper I), the notions of turning points (Paper II) and intermittency (Paper III), and the connection between masculinities and criminal careers (Paper IV). In contrast to much life-course criminological research, the dissertation mainly relies on qualitative life history interviews, collected as part of The Stockholm Life Course Project. The findings suggest a need for increased sensitivity to offenders' lives, and their complexity. Whereas continuity and change can be understood within a frame of age-graded social control, this perspective needs to be extended and developed further, in mainly three ways. First, the concept and phenomenon of human agency needs closer study. Second, lived experiences of various forms of social stratification (e.g. gender, ethnicity, and so on) must be integrated into understandings of continuity and change in crime, seeing as phenomena such as social control may be contingent on these in important ways. Third, this dissertation highlights the need to go beyond the transition to adulthood and explore the later stages of criminal careers. In closing, the dissertation suggests that we move toward a focus on the contingencies of criminal careers and the factors, events, and processes that help shape them. If we understand those contingencies in more detail, possible implications for policy and practice also emerge.
Understanding Criminal Careers
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Author : Keith Soothill
language : en
Publisher: Willan
Release Date : 2013-05-13
Understanding Criminal Careers written by Keith Soothill and has been published by Willan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-13 with Social Science categories.
This is an accessible text which clarifies the crucial theoretical and methodological debates surrounding the study of criminal careers looking at the issues of prediction, risk and specialisation
Criminal Careers And Career Criminals
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Author : Panel on Research on Criminal Careers
language : en
Publisher: National Academies
Release Date : 1986-01-15
Criminal Careers And Career Criminals written by Panel on Research on Criminal Careers and has been published by National Academies this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986-01-15 with Law categories.
Volume II takes an in-depth look at the various aspects of criminal careers, including the relationship of alcohol and drug abuse to criminal careers, co-offending influences on criminal careers, issues in the measurement of criminal careers, accuracy of prediction models, and ethical issues in the use of criminal career information in making decisions about offenders.