RT Article
T1 Violent recidivism and chronicity in the 1958 Philadelphia cohort
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 1
IS 4
SP 319
OP 344
A1 Piper, Elizabeth S.
LA English
YR 1985
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764277325
AB In the present study the relationship between chronicity and violent recidivism is analyzed using longitudinal data from the 1958 Philadelphia cohort. The data reaffirm prior research findings that a small cadre of offenders commits the majority of crimes which involve serious harm to the community, yet it was found that the violent offenders accounted for a large share of the more serious index offenses. In addition, among violent delinquents there is a greater proportion of chronic offenders than among nonviolent delinquents. Chronic offenders were more likely than nonchronic offenders to repeat a violent offense. Violent recidivists also committed a large proportion of nonviolent index offenses. One might imply from the results of this study that a policy of selective incapacitation of high-rate offenders would substantially reduce the amount of violent crime as well as nonviolent crime.
K1 Selective Incapacitation
K1 Offense severity
K1 chronicity
K1 Recidivism
K1 violent delinquent
DO 10.1007/BF01064185