The Monetary Costs of Criminal Trajectories for a Sample of Offenders in Ontario, Canada

Purpose: The past 20 years have seen an increase in the number of studies on the monetary costs of crime. More recently, researchers have turned to trajectory analysis to derive longitudinal cost estimates to generate more precise figures across subgroups of offenders. This approach is thought to pr...

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Authors: Day, David M. 1957- (Author) ; Koegl, Christopher J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: [2019]
In: Journal of developmental and life-course criminology
Year: 2019, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 203-219
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