A measure of skewness in offense distributions

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It has become a criminological fact of life that a small group of offenders is responsible for a far greater share of offending than its size would suggest. For example, it is well known that in the 1945 Philadelphia birth cohort, 6% of the cohort members committed 52% of the offenses. We argue, how...

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Authors: Fox, James Alan 1951- (Author) ; Tracy, Paul E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 1988
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 1988, Volume: 4, Issue: 3, Pages: 259-274
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Keywords:
skewness
Criminal Careers
Chronic Offenders
alpha
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