After decades of relative obscurity, research on desistance from offending has experienced
an exponential, and much warranted, escalation in attention. This precipitous growth is …

Developmental and life-course criminology can be differentiated from other types of
criminology by its focus on, and appreciation of, change over time in antisocial behaviour …

Being placed in restrictive housing is considered one of the most devastating experiences a
human can endure, yet a scant amount of research has been conducted to test how this …

Objectives Generally speaking, crime is, fortunately, a rare event. As far as modelling is
concerned, this sparsity of data means that traditional measures to quantify concentration …

Aim The current study explores heterogeneity in the aggregate age-crime curve. This is
achieved by analyzing to what extent there is empirical support for the existence of pivotal …

A key assumption in the domestic violence literature is that abuse escalates in severity and
frequency over time. However, very little is known about how violence and abuse unfolds …

Objective The study extends previous literature (Cochran in J Crim Justice 40: 433–440,
2012, J Res Crime Delinq 51 (2): 200–229, 2014) by simultaneously examining two …

Since its introduction in the 1970s, the concept of the “criminal career” has had a substantial
impact on the field of criminology. This special issue took a comprehensive look at the idea …

Purpose The age-crime curve is a well-known “fact” in criminology; yet, historically, attention
to the interplay between chronological age and offending has focused almost exclusively on …

Objectives The current study analyzed the association between a final paternal conviction
that occurred sometime 10 years prior to birth through age 14 and subsequent child …