Understanding Criminal Careers

Author : Keith Soothill,Claire Fitzpatrick,Brian Francis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134025909

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Understanding Criminal Careers by Keith Soothill,Claire Fitzpatrick,Brian Francis Pdf

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.

Author : John F. MacLeod,Peter Grove,David Farrington
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199697243

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Explaining Criminal Careers by John F. MacLeod,Peter Grove,David Farrington Pdf

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.

Author : John F. MacLeod,Peter G. Grove,David P. Farrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crime
ISBN : 6613970735

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Explaining Criminal Careers by John F. MacLeod,Peter G. Grove,David P. Farrington Pdf

Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple but influential theory of crime, conviction and reconviction. The assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of cohort samples extracted from the Home Office Offenders Index - a unique database which contains records of all criminal (standard list) convictions in England and Wales since 1963. In particular, the theory explains the well-known Age/Crime curve. Based on the idea that there are only three types of offenders, who commit crimes at either high or low (constant) rates and have either a high or low (constant) risk of reoffending, this simple theory makes exact quantitative predictions about criminal careers and age-crime curves. Purely from the birth-rate over the second part of the 20th century, the theory accurately predicts (to within 2%) the prison population contingent on a given sentencing policy. The theory also suggests that increasing the probability of conviction after each offence is the most effective way of reducing crime, although there is a role for treatment programmes for some offenders. The authors indicate that crime is influenced by the operation of the Criminal Justice System and that offenders do not 'grow out' of crime as commonly supposed; they are persuaded to stop or decide to stop after (repeated) convictions, with a certain fraction of offenders desisting after each conviction. Simply imprisoning offenders will not reduce crime either by individual deterrence or by incapacitation. With comprehensive explanations of the formulae used and complete mathematical appendices allowing for individual interpretations and further development of the theory, Explaining Criminal Careers represents an innovative and meticulous investigation into criminal activity and the influences behind it. With clear policy implications and a wealth of original and significant discussions, this book marks a ground-breaking chapter in the criminological debate surrounding criminal careers.

Author : Keith Soothill,Claire Fitzpatrick,Brian Francis
Publisher : Willan
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134025831

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Understanding Criminal Careers by Keith Soothill,Claire Fitzpatrick,Brian Francis Pdf

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

Author : Matthew J. Sheridan,Raymond R. Rainville
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442254312

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Exploring and Understanding Careers in Criminal Justice by Matthew J. Sheridan,Raymond R. Rainville Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1782462376

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Understanding Criminal Careers in Organised Crime [electronic Resource] by Anonim Pdf

Author : Glenn D. Walters
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781412996082

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Crime in a Psychological Context by Glenn D. Walters Pdf

Referencing clinical case studies throughout, this book encourages students to critically examine crime-related constructs such as psychopathy, antisocial personality disorder and criminal lifestyle, and to explore evidence-based interventions that could prevent further crime.

Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice,Panel on Research on Criminal Careers
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1986-02-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780309036849

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Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals," by National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice,Panel on Research on Criminal Careers Pdf

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.

Author : David Weisburd,Elin Waring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-02-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521777631

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White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers by David Weisburd,Elin Waring Pdf

Weisburd and Waring offer here the first detailed examination of the white-collar criminal career.

Author : Oxford University Press
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199803613

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Situational Action Theory: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide by Oxford University Press Pdf

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of criminology find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook provides bibliographic information supported by direct recommendations about which sources to consult and editorial commentary to make it clear how the cited sources are interrelated related. A reader will discover, for instance, the most reliable introductions and overviews to the topic, and the most important publications on various areas of scholarly interest within this topic. In criminology, as in other disciplines, researchers at all levels are drowning in potentially useful scholarly information, and this guide has been created as a tool for cutting through that material to find the exact source you need. This ebook is a static version of an article from Oxford Bibliographies Online: Criminology, a dynamic, continuously updated, online resource designed to provide authoritative guidance through scholarship and other materials relevant to the study and practice of criminology. Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.aboutobo.com.

Author : David W Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134005116

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Understanding Criminal Behaviour by David W Jones Pdf

Our understanding of criminal behaviour and its causes has been too long damaged by the failure to integrate fully the emotional, psychological, social and cultural influences on the way people behave. This book aims to integrate psychological and criminological perspectives in order to better understand the nature of criminal behaviour. In particular it aims to explore the range of psychological approaches that seek to understand the significance of the emotions that surround criminal behaviour, allowing for an exploration of individual differences and social and cultural issues which help to bridge the gaps between disciplinary approaches. The book puts forward a model for understanding behaviour through a better grasp of the link between emotions, morality and culture and argues that crime can often be viewed as emerging from disordered social relationships.

Author : Panel on Research on Criminal Careers
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-15
Category : Law
ISBN : NAP:11778

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Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals," by Panel on Research on Criminal Careers Pdf

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.

Author : Don C. Gibbons
Publisher : Prentice Hall
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Crime
ISBN : STANFORD:36105006454552

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Society, Crime, and Criminal Careers by Don C. Gibbons Pdf

Author : Darrell J. Steffensmeier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781351526869

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Confessions of a Dying Thief by Darrell J. Steffensmeier Pdf

*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

Author : Coy H. Johnston
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483379081

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Careers in Law Enforcement by Coy H. Johnston Pdf

Careers in Law Enforcement is a valuable resource for students considering a career in the criminal justice field, specifically in policing. Written in a concise and conversational tone, author Coy H. Johnston includes three main sections: planning a realistic path, selecting an appropriate career path in law enforcement, and preparing for the hiring process. The first chapter offers students a unique opportunity to take a personality/career test to help them discover the types of jobs that might be a good fit. Consequently, students will set sensible goals at the beginning of their degree program and seek appropriate internships and volunteer opportunities. This text is a helpful resource students will be able to peruse repeatedly when they are ready to start the process of applying for jobs within law enforcement.