Developmental Criminology and the Crime Decline (eBook)

A Comparative Analysis of the Criminal Careers of Two New South Wales Birth Cohorts

Jason L. Payne, Alexis R. Piquero (Autoren)

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2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-89722-8 (ISBN)

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Throughout the 1990s many countries around the world experienced the beginnings of what would later become the most significant and protracted decline in crime ever recorded. Although not a universal experience, the so-called international crime-drop was an unpredicted and unprecedented event which now offers fertile ground for reflection on many of criminology's key theories and debates. Through the lens of developmental and life-course criminology, this Element compares the criminal offending trajectories of two Australian birth cohorts born ten years apart in 1984 and 1994. It finds that the crime-drop was unlikely the result of any significant change in the prevalence or persistence of early-onset and chronic offending, but the disproportionate disappearance of their low-rate, adolescent-onset peers. Despite decades of research that has prioritized interventions for at-risk chronic offenders, it seems our greatest global crime prevention achievement to date was in reducing the prevalence of criminal offending in the general population.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.10.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• ISBN-10: 1-108-89722-3 / 1108897223
• ISBN-13: 978-1-108-89722-8 / 9781108897228