RT Article
T1 Selective Attrition and the Age-Crime Relationship
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 19
IS 2
SP 107
OP 127
A1 Brame, Robert W.
A2 Piquero, Alex R. 1970-
LA English
YR 2003
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/176427945X
AB One of the most widely accepted findings in criminology is the strong curvilinear association between age and crime. Studies have indicated that involvement in criminal behavior rises throughout the teenage years until it levels off during the late teenage and early adult years and then declines throughout the remainder of the life span. Many of these studies, however, have relied on cross-sectional or repeated cross-sectional officially recorded data. In recent years, researchers investigating changes in self-reported criminal behavior among the same individuals as they age have discovered that involvement in criminal behavior actually declines during the adolescent years. Although there are a number of possible explanations for this phenomenon, we explore the extent to which this decline can be attributed to selective or non-random panel attrition.
K1 Crime
K1 Age
K1 missing data
K1 identification problems
K1 censored bivariate probit
K1 Attrition
DO 10.1023/A:1023009919637