RT Article
T1 Developmental trajectories of offenders convicted of fraud: a follow-up to age 50 in a Dutch conviction cohort
JF European journal of criminology
VO 14
IS 5
SP 543
OP 565
A1 Geest, Victor R. van der
A2 Weisburd, David 1954-
A2 Blokland, Arie Aart Jan 1973-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1578520770
AB This study describes the criminal careers of offenders convicted of fraud, distinguishing different career dimensions such as intermittency, versatility and specialization. Results indicate that most fraud offenders are versatile in the sense that they also have significant criminal records for other serious offending (that is, not fraud). At the same time they are also specialized in fraud. When we examine developmental trajectories of serious offending and next explore patterns of fraud for the groups identified, we find that offenders in our sample represent a heterogeneous group and that the classic divide between typical financial (for example, white-collar) offenders and common criminals does not apply to the majority of our sample.
K1 Criminal career
K1 Financial crime
K1 Fraud
K1 Life-course criminology
K1 Specialization
DO 10.1177/1477370816677620