Understanding Criminal Careers

Informationen zum Autor Keith Soothill is Emeritus Professor of Social Research at the University of Lancaster. Claire Fitzpatrick is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Lancaster. Brian Francis is Professor of Social Statistics at the University of Lancaster. Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. The Great Debate: Competing Theoretical Approaches and Methodological Issues 3. The Great Solution? The Major Longitudinal Studies 4. When Does It All Start? The Onset of a Criminal Career 5. How Long Does It Last? Persistence, Desistence and the Duration of a Criminal Career 6. Specialisation 7. Dangerousness - Prediction and Risk 8. When Do Ex-offenders Become Like Non-offenders? 9. What's Wrong With Criminal Careers? Moving Forward

Product details

• Authors: Claire Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick Claire, Brian Francis, Keith Soothill, Keith Fitzpatrick Soothill, Soothill Keith
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2009
• EAN: 9781843925033
• ISBN: 978-1-84392-503-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Offenders, Causes and prevention of crime