PURPOSE: The criminal career paradigm is a major research focus in criminology, and the
current state-of-the-art review explicates research published between 2000 and 2011 …

In Why People Radicalize, Kees van den Bos argues that if we want to truly understand
radicalization and prevent, attenuate, and fight violent extremism and terrorism, we must pay …

This study investigates target selection scripts of 72 serial sex offenders who have
committed a total of 361 sex crimes on stranger victims. Using latent class analysis, three …

Objectives Prison visitation serves as a critical setting by which prison life intersects with
civilian life. Yet, visitation research has produced conflicting findings. Using social support …

Criminologists have frequently debated whether offenders are specialists, in that they
consistently perform either one offense or similar offenses, or versatile by performing any …

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to juvenile delinquency by defining and
describing juvenile delinquency, examining explanations for delinquent behavior, and …

People convicted of violent crimes constitute a majority of the imprisoned population but are
generally ignored by existing policies aimed at reducing mass incarceration. Serious efforts …

Self-control theory (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990) argues that individuals with similar
attributes tend to 'end up together'(ie, homophily) because of the tendency to select friends …

Objectives This study explores preference variation in location choice strategies of
residential burglars. Applying a model of offender target selection that is grounded in …

Explaining Criminal Careers presents a simple quantitative theory of crime, conviction and
reconviction, the assumptions of the theory are derived directly from a detailed analysis of …