Desisting from Crime: Continuity and Change in Long-Term Crime Patterns of Serious Chronic Offenders

by Michael E. Ezell, Lawrence E. Cohen

Overview

This groundbreaking study examines patterns of offending among persistent juvenile offenders. Employing advanced quantitative techniques to offenders with very high rates of recidivism, Ezell and Cohen demonstrate that many of these apparently hardened criminals will "grow out" of crime by the time they reach their early to mid-20s. This finding has profound implications for penal policies that impose life sentences on multiple offenders.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199273812
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/17/2005
Series:	Clarendon Studies in Criminology
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	8.60(w) x 5.70(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Michael E. Ezell is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University, Nashville. Professor Lawrence E. Cohen is at the Department of Sociology, University of California at Davis.

Table of Contents

1. Looking Forward2. Crime Over the Life-course: the Empirical Implications of Three Theories3. Empirical Research Review and Hypotheses4. The California Youth Authority5. Data and Methods6. Descriptive Summary of the Data7. Age and Crime among Latent Classes of Serious Chronic Offenders8. The Relationship between Past and Subsequent Criminal Activity9. Looking Backward and ForwardAppendices