A national population based examination of the association between age-versatility trajectories and recidivism rates

Shachar Yonai, Stephen Z. Levine and Joseph Glicksohn

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2013, vol. 41, issue 6, 467-476

Abstract: To compare theoretical explanations of the age-versatility curve including the hypotheses of: self-control theory stating that versatility is followed by specialization; taxonomic theory stating that adolescent-limited offenders are specialists and life-course offenders are versatile and orthogenetic theory stating that specialization and versatility are present in a large number of offender groups.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2013.09.007

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