Age–crime relation in India: similarity or divergence vs. Hirschi/Gottfredson inverted j-shaped projection?

In this study, we used age–crime statistics from India to investigate the two core tenets of Hirschi and Gottfredson’s (HG) invariance thesis that the age distribution of crime is always and everywhere adolescent spiked and thereafter declines continuously into elder ages. Besides comparisons to the...

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Authors: Steffensmeier, Darrell J. 1942- (Author) ; Lu, Yunmei (Author) ; Kumar, Sumit (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: The British journal of criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 59, Issue: 1, Pages: 144-165
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Age–crime
Cross-national
Life course/developmental
Culture
Youth crime
Hirschi, Travis
Gottfredson, Michael R.
Indien