Synopses & Reviews
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.
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 Forward
2. Crime Over the Life-course: the Empirical Implications of Three Theories
3. Empirical Research Review and Hypotheses
4. The California Youth Authority
5. Data and Methods
6. Descriptive Summary of the Data
7. Age and Crime among Latent Classes of Serious Chronic Offenders
8. The Relationship between Past and Subsequent Criminal Activity
9. Looking Backward and Forward
Appendices