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age-crime curve: a standalone construct

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age-crimecurve1 CONSTRUCTAge-crime curveHIRSCHI · CRIMINOLOGY

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crime rises sharply in adolescence and declines in adulthood, a pattern Hirschi and Gottfredson argued is invariant across groups.

In criminology, age-crime curve refers to crime rises sharply in adolescence and declines in adulthood, a pattern Hirschi and Gottfredson argued is invariant across groups. This meaning comes from Hirschi (1983) in American Journal of Sociology.[1]

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  1. Hirschi, T., & Gottfredson, M. (1983). Age and the Explanation of Crime. American Journal of Sociology, 89(3), 552-584. https://doi.org/10.1086/227905

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