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Criminal Careers in London and Stockholm: A Cross-National Comparative Study

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Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior

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The main aim of this paper is to compare two cohorts of working-class males born in 1953, from London and Stockholm, on criminal career features between ages 10 and 25: prevalence, individual offending frequency, continuity, onset, desistance and duration. In addition, the relationship between age of onset and other criminal career features, and characteristics of chronic offenders, are reported for both cohorts. Before describing the results, the criminal career approach and cross-national comparisons are discussed, and then the two longitudinal surveys and steps taken to increase the comparability between them.

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Farrington, D.P., Wikstrom, PO.H. (1994). Criminal Careers in London and Stockholm: A Cross-National Comparative Study. In: Weitekamp, E.G.M., Kerner, HJ. (eds) Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior. NATO ASI Series, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0864-5_2

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