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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1992
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Journal of quantitative criminology
Year: 1992, Volume: 8, Issue: 2, Pages: 175-187 |
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