Desisting from crime: continuity and change in long-term crime patterns of serious chronic offenders

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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...

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Main Author: Ezell, Michael E. 1973- (Author)
Contributors: Cohen, Lawrence E. (Contributor)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2005
In:Year: 2005
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Juvenile Delinquency > United States
Juvenile recidivists > United States
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States
USA > Jugendlicher Intensivtäter > Kriminalsoziologie
USA > Jugendlicher Rückfalltäter > Längsschnittuntersuchung
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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.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 328 p.) ill.
ISBN:9780191699702
0191699705
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199273812.001.0001