TY - BOOK ID - 8356036 TI - Explaining criminal careers : implications for justice policy AU - MacLeod, John F. AU - Grove, Peter G. AU - Farrington, David P. PY - 2012 SN - 0199697248 0191645249 0191781568 1283658232 PB - Oxford : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Crime and criminals -- Great Britain. KW - Criminal justice, Administration of -- Great Britain. KW - Criminals -- Great Britain. KW - Criminals. KW - Criminals KW - Crime KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency KW - Criminology. KW - Study and teaching KW - Social sciences KW - reconviction KW - recidivism KW - offenders index KW - oi KW - criminal careers KW - prison population KW - conviction KW - age-crime curve KW - theory of crime KW - Non-commercial activity KW - Probability KW - Risk UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8356036 AB - Using the Home Office Offenders Index, a unique database containing records of all criminal convictions in England and Wales since 1963, this simple but influential theory makes exact quantitative predictions about criminal careers and age-crime curves, in particular the prison population contingent on a given sentencing policy. ER -