4 Age–Crime Curve and Criminal Career Patterns

DeLisi, Matt

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-08720-7_4

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“…Furthermore, most nonviolent men remained nonviolent and only ten men became very late-onset violent offenders. This finding is consistent with a study on general offending by Farrington and colleagues [15], which demonstrated relatively strong stability in classes of offenders, especially beyond the early 30s, and with the age-crime curve in general [8]. …”

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“…Due to age normative changes in substance use and offending, these two types of deviance peak at different stages in the life cycle and desistance for most individuals occurs earlier for offending than for substance use. Desistance from criminal offending often begins in late adolescence [8, 32], a time when substance use is generally escalating [2]. For the most part, youth do not mature out of heavy drinking and illicit drug use until they take on adult roles, such as marriage and career [26].…”

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The Association of Alcohol and Drug Use with Persistence of Violent Offending in Young Adulthood

White

Buckman

Pardini

et al. 2015

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose This study expanded upon an earlier study, which examined the associations between heavy drinking and persistence of serious violent offending through emerging adulthood (approximate age 25), by examining associations between alcohol, marijuana, and other drug use and disorders and persistence of serious violent offending through young adulthood (approximate age 36). Methods We used official records and self-reported longitudinal data from Black and White men from early adolescence through young adulthood (n = 391). Men were divided into four violence groups: non-violent, desisters, persisters, and very late-onsetters. Multinomial logistic regression analyses controlling for race and incarceration were used to compare these groups in terms of substance use in young adulthood and changes in use from emerging to young adulthood. Results Most previous serious violent offenders did not re-offend in young adulthood. Whereas alcohol use did not differ across groups, persisters and desisters, compared to non-violent men, were more likely to use hard drugs, deal drugs, have a lifetime substance use disorder diagnosis and show larger decreases in alcohol and marijuana frequency from emerging to young adulthood. None of these measures differed between persisters and desisters except that persisters reported larger decreases in alcohol and marijuana use frequency. Conclusions The findings demonstrated reductions in serious violent offending during young adulthood and suggested that after adolescence, illicit drug use, compared to alcohol use, may play a more important role in initiation and maintenance of serious violent offending. Future research that examines the interrelations of drug use, drug culture, and violence is warranted.

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The Association of Alcohol and Drug Use with Persistence of Violent Offending in Young Adulthood

White

Buckman

Pardini

et al. 2015

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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“…Burglars are significantly more likely to receive governmental assistance and have generally unstable residency characterized by frequent moves. Criminal career research indicates that although offenders are primarily versatile in their offending (DeLisi, 2015;Lussier & Cale, 2013;Piquero, Farrington, & Blumstein, 2003;Roach & Pease, 2014;Yonai, Levine, & Glicksohn, 2013), there is also evidence for relative specialization in their criminal offending (Adams & Pizarro, 2014;Britt, 1996;Jennings, Zgoba, Donner, Henderson, & Tewksbury, 2014). As a whole, burglar offenders display behaviors consistent with both perspectives as they are more likely to use tobacco, to commit a serious violent offense, to be on probation or parole, and to commit robbery which are suggestive of versatility, and to steal something with a value more than US$50, commit motor vehicle theft, and commit larceny/ theft which are suggestive of specialization.…”

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An Epidemiological Study of Burglary Offenders: Trends and Predictors of Self-Reported Arrests for Burglary in the United States, 2002-2013

DeLisi

Nelson

Vaughn

et al. 2016

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Burglary is serious property crime with a relatively high incidence, and has been shown to be variously associated with other forms of criminal behavior. Unfortunately, an epidemiological understanding of burglary and its correlates is largely unknown. Using publicuse data collected between 2002 and 2013 as part of the National Study on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH), the current study compared self-reported burglars with and without criminal history.The unadjusted prevalence estimates of burglary were statistically different for those with a prior arrest history (4.7%) compared to those without an arrest history (0.02%) which is a 235-fold difference. Those with an arrest history were more likely to report lower educational attainment, to have lower income, to have moved more than 3 times in the past 5 years, and to use alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and engage in binge drinking. Moreover, those with prior arrest histories were younger and more likely to be male. There is considerable heterogeneity among burglars with criminal history indicating substantially greater behavioral risk.Keywords: burglary, burglars, epidemiology, criminal career, criminal history 2 Introduction Burglary, the unlawful entry of a residence or business to perpetrate theft or some other felony, is a serious property offense that commonly is punished by prison confinement and produces tens of millions of dollars annually in direct, indirect, and intangible costs (Wickramasekera, Wright, Elsey, Murray, & Tubeuf, 2015). In the United States, burglary is a moderately common crime with an incidence of nearly two million arrests annually according to the Uniform Crime Reports (Federal Bureau of Investigation, 2014) and three million victimizations according to the National Crime Victimization Survey (Truman & Langton, 2015). Burglary is associated with a range of negative consequences for burglary victims including loss of property and damage to one's home, emotional trauma, stressful hypervigiliance due to the violation of privacy, increased anxiety, depression, and fear of crime, and others. Like all criminal offenses, there is substantial heterogeneity among burglary offenders in terms of their broader criminal career (Bouhana, Johnson, & Porter, 2014; Hargreaves & Francis, 2014;Shover, 1996), motivation for perpetrating burglary (Maguire, 1988; Wright, Logie, & Decker, 1995), geographic and temporal issues relating to burglary (Johnson, 2008; Johnson & Bowers, 2004; Kocsis & Irwin, 1998), and the association of burglary to other forms of crime (Fox & Farrington, 2012;Shover, 1996;Steffensmeier, Harris, & Painter-Davis, 2015). Thus, burglary can denote a one-off adolescent prank by a juvenile offender, an opportunistic offense by an offender enmeshed in an antisocial lifestyle, or a carefully planned instrumental crime 1 Given the extensive monetary and emotional costs imposed by burglary, a large segment of the burglary literature focuses on home security, burglary prevention techniques, and forensic issues relating to arre...

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“…Age (Age): Most social scientists certainly believe that there is a relationship between crime and age. Delisi (2015) believes that people tend to commit crimes when they enter the late adolescent stage of their life; the inclination to commit crimes continues until the middle-aged period. Therefore, we add the control variable of age, which ranges from 15 to 64 of the inhabitants.…”

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Poverty aversion or inequality aversion? The influencing factors of crime in China

Song

Yan

Jiang

2020

Journal of Applied Economics

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This paper aims to understand whether and how poverty aversion and inequality aversion affect the criminal behaviors. We analyze the relationship between the three variables through a theoretical model and an empirical model. The panel data of 27 provincial-level regions in China were collected for testing the hypothesis. The investigation revealed: 1. Inequality significantly increases crime, while the poverty reduction does not reduce crime. 2. The widening consumption gap between urban and rural residents may be the cause of crime, the effect is more significant for visible consumer goods. 3. The excessive consumption difference between the rich and ordinary people may lead to crime. 4. The increasing inequality of distribution between the state and the people has a positive impact on crime too. The research shows that the Chinese residents are not affected by poverty but by inequality in the choice of crime.

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4 Age–Crime Curve and Criminal Career Patterns

Cited by 30 publications

References 52 publications

The Association of Alcohol and Drug Use with Persistence of Violent Offending in Young Adulthood

The Association of Alcohol and Drug Use with Persistence of Violent Offending in Young Adulthood

An Epidemiological Study of Burglary Offenders: Trends and Predictors of Self-Reported Arrests for Burglary in the United States, 2002-2013

Poverty aversion or inequality aversion? The influencing factors of crime in China

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