Author : National Research Council
Release : 1986-02-01
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 844/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals," by : National Research Council
Download or read book Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals," written by National Research Council. This book was released on 1986-02-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.