Constancy and change in the U.S. age distribution of crime: A test of the “invariance hypothesis”

The recent controversy over the age relationship with criminal behavior can be traced to Hirschi and Gottfredson's ( Am. J. Sociol. 89 , 552–584, 1983) failure to define “invariance.” In this paper, I distinguish two types of invariance— parametric and mathematical form — that explains both the...

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1. VerfasserIn: Britt, Chester L. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: 1992
In: Journal of quantitative criminology
Jahr: 1992, Band: 8, Heft: 2, Seiten: 175-187
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