A Comparative, Cross-Cultural Criminal Career Analysis
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-28-2015
Publication Title
European Journal of Criminology
DOI
10.1177/1477370815579951
ISSN
1741-2609
Abstract
For over 30 years, the criminal career paradigm in criminology has raised important theoretical and policy questions as well as research on the ‘dimensions’ of the criminal career (for example, onset, duration, lambda, persistence, chronicity, desistance). Yet few studies have examined criminal career dimensions using a cross-national comparative approach. In this paper, we use an international sample of students (aged 12–15 years) from 30 countries (International Self-Report Delinquency Study-2): (1) to determine the extent of cross-national variation in the prevalence and correlates of high-frequency, serious offenders; and (2) to explore cross-national variation in offending patterns and selected correlates of offense specialization (for example, gender, self-control, delinquent peer association). Although we find several factors are correlated with criminal career dimensions across context, important differences emerged as well that have implications for developing context-specific theories of crime and effective offender programming.
Recommended Citation
Rocque, Michael, Chad Posick, Ineke Haen Marshall, Alex R. Piquero.
2015.
"A Comparative, Cross-Cultural Criminal Career Analysis."
European Journal of Criminology, 12 (4): 400-419 Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
doi: 10.1177/1477370815579951
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/crimjust-criminology-facpubs/15
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