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Desisting from crime : continuity and change in long-term crime patterns of serious chronic offenders /

This study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. Employing advanced quantitative techniques to offenders with very high rates of recidivism, Ezell and Cohen demonstrate that many of these apparently hardened criminals will 'grow out' of crime by the time they...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ezell, Michael Eugene, 1973-
Other Authors: Cohen, Lawrence E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005.
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology.
Subjects:
Juvenile delinquency > United States.
Juvenile justice, Administration of > United States.
Délinquance juvénile > États-Unis.
Justice pour mineurs > Administration > États-Unis.
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile justice, Administration of
United States
Jugendlicher Intensivtäter
Kriminalsoziologie
USA
Längsschnittuntersuchung
Jugendlicher Rückfalltäter
Social Welfare & Social Work.
Social Sciences.
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:This study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. Employing advanced quantitative techniques to offenders with very high rates of recidivism, Ezell and Cohen demonstrate that many of these apparently hardened criminals will 'grow out' of crime by the time they reach their 20s.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiii, 328 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-306) and index.
ISBN:9780191699702
0191699705