RT Article
T1 Education and the crime-age profile
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 43
IS 1
SP 141
OP 168
A1 Hansen, Kristine
LA English
YR 2003
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1639651772
AB That crime tends torise and peak in the mid to late teens and early twenties then declines with age has, by now, become an accepted fact. Despite this, over the last 20 years there have been numerous debates over the true nature of the relationship between crime and age. This paper uses self-report data collected from young males aged 16-25 in England and Wales to examine the crime-age profiles of two groups: those who leave school at 16 and those who stay on past the compulsory school leaving age. Findings show that for three categories of crime (property, handling and violent offences) the two groups have significantly different crime-age profiles. But that the gap between the two profiles can be accounted for by differences across the two groups in a number of observable variables related to the labour market, education, family, individual characteristics and the neighbourhood/area in which people live. The most important factors underpinning differences in the crime-age profiles by education group are whether an individual lives with their parents, family contact with the police and school truancy
K1 Alter
K1 Kriminalität
K1 Jugendliche
K1 Arbeitsmarkt
K1 Ausbildung
K1 Familie
K1 Persönlichkeit