Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals,"
Books | Law / General
National Research Council
Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education
Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice
Panel on Research on Criminal Careers
By focusing attention on individuals rather than on aggregates, this book takes a novel approach to studying criminal behavior. It develops a framework for collecting information about individual criminal careers and their parameters, reviews existing knowledge about criminal career dimensions, presents models of offending patterns, and describes how criminal career information can be used to develop and refine criminal justice policies. In addition, an agenda for future research on criminal careers is presented.
