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- Title
EXAMINING THE PREVALENCE OF CRIMINAL DESISTANCE.
- Authors
Brame, Robert; Bushway, Shawn D.; Paternoster, Raymond
- Abstract
Criminological theorists and criminal justice policy makers place a great deal of importance on the idea of desistance. In general terms, criminal desistance refers to a cessation of offending activity among those who have offended in the past. Some significant challenges await those who would estimate the relative size of the desisting population or attempt to identify factors that predict membership in that population. In this paper, we consider several different analytic frameworks that represent an array of plausible definitions. We then illustrate some of our ideas with an empirical example from the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort Study.
- Subjects
CRIMINOLOGY; CRIME; CRIMINAL justice system; CRIMINAL behavior; CRIMINALS; CRIMINAL psychology
- Publication
Criminology, 2003, Vol 41, Issue 2, p423
- ISSN
0011-1384
- Publication type
Article