Rethinking one of criminology’s ‘brute facts’: the age–crime curve and the crime drop in Scotland

Examining annual variation in the age–crime curve as a way to better understand the recent crime drop, this paper explores how the age distribution of convicted offending changed for men and women in Scotland between 1989 and 2011. This analysis employs shaded contour plots as a method of visualizin...

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Main Author: Matthews, Ben (Author)
Contributors: Minton, Jon
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: European journal of criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 15, Issue: 3, Pages: 296-320
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Keywords:
Age–crime curve
Crime drop
Data visualization
Scotland,
Sex differences