Age and its relation to crime in Taiwan and the United States: invariant, or does cultural context matter?

Current empirical and theoretical understanding of the relation between age and crime is based almost entirely on data from the United States and a few prototypical Western societies for which age-specific crime information across offense types is available. By using Western databases, Hirschi and G...

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Authors: Steffensmeier, Darrell J. 1942- (Author) ; Zhong, Hua (Author) ; Lu, Yunmei (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Criminology
Year: 2017, Volume: 55, Issue: 2, Pages: 377-404
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Age-crime relationship
Life course
International
Theory
Adolescent risk taking
Lebensverlauf
Age-crime Debatte
Jugendliche
Riskantes Verhalten