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Desisting from crime : continuity and change in long-term crime patterns of serious chronic offenders / Michael E. Ezell and Lawrence E. Cohen. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ezell, Michael Eugene, 1973-
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Clarendon studies in criminology
- Clarendon studies in criminology Desisting from crime
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Juvenile delinquency--United States.
- Juvenile delinquency.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of--United States.
- Juvenile justice, Administration of.
- Juvenile recidivists--United States.
- Juvenile recidivists.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 328 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. Employing advanced quantitative techniques to offenders with very high rates of recidivism, Ezell and Cohen demonstrate that many of these apparently hardened criminals will 'grow out' of crime by the time they reach their 20s.
- Contents:
- Looking forward
- Crime over the life course : the empirical implications of three theories
- Empirical research review and hypotheses
- The California youth authority
- Data and methods
- Descriptive summary of data
- Age and crime among latent classes of serious youthful offenders
- On the relationship of past to subsequent criminal activity
- Looking backward and forward.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-306) and index.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-169970-5
- OCLC:
- 9536973
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