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criminal career: a standalone construct

One name. One construct. A landmark on the map.

● anchor · offending as a sequence over a life Nearest construct by meaning·not indexed
criminalcareer1 CONSTRUCTCriminal careerBLUMSTEIN ET AL. · 1988

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Criminology

Onset, frequency, seriousness, and end of offending

The criminal-career approach studies an individual's offending as a sequence unfolding over time, described by distinct dimensions (the age of onset, the frequency of offending while active, the seriousness of offences, and the age of termination) rather than by a single lifetime count. Blumstein, Cohen, and Farrington's 1988 Criminal career research: Its value for criminology set out this framework and argued that participation in crime and the intensity of offending among the active are separate questions needing separate explanation. The construct is a bookkeeping of offending across the life course, and it is deliberately agnostic about causes.[1]

Unit
The pattern of an individual's offending over time: onset, frequency, seriousness, duration
Recovery means
Termination of the career is desistance; the framework times it as the end of the active offending period
Measured by
Described by onset age, individual offending frequency, offence mix, and career length from longitudinal records

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References

  1. Blumstein, A., Cohen, J., & Farrington, D. P. (1988). Criminal career research: Its value for criminology. Criminology, 26(1), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.1988.tb00829.x

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