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Bacon, Sarah; Paternoster, Raymond; Brame, Robert – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This article examines the well-documented relationship between early initiation or onset of criminal behavior and a heightened risk of involvement in offending. Previous research examining this question conducted by Nagin and Farrington ("Criminology" 30:235-260, 1992a; "Criminology" 30:501-523, 1992b) used data from the…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Criminals, Adolescents, Criminology
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Piquero, Alex R.; Brame, Robert; Lynam, Donald – Crime & Delinquency, 2004
Much of the research on criminal careers has concentrated on the dimensions of prevalence, frequency, specialization, and desistance. One dimension that has not been the focus of research is career length. Knowledge on the distribution of--and correlates associated with--career length is important for matters related to theory and policy. Using…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Criminals, Racial Differences, Incidence