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  1. 1. Continuities and Changes in Criminal Careers

    Författare :Christoffer Carlsson; Jerzy Sarnecki; Tove Pettersson; Peggy C. Giordano; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; life-course criminology; criminal careers; persistence; desistance; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Sammanfattning : The best predictor of future criminal behavior is past criminal behavior. At the same time, the vast majority of people who engage in crime are teenagers and stop offending with age. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Criminal Careers in the Long Run : Patterns and Predictions of Criminal Convictions across Age, Time, and Gender

    Författare :Fredrik Sivertsson; Anders Nilsson; Olof Bäckman; Torbjørn Skardhamar; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Criminal career; Recidivism; Life course; Longitudinal; Birth cohort; Gender; kriminologi; Criminology;

    Sammanfattning : Why is it that a small proportion of the population accounts for the majority of crime? This question has stimulated a great deal of theoretical and methodological controversy in criminology. In essence, the debate is rooted in different theoretical underpinnings of continuity and change in crime, and the extent to which it is possible to foresee a life of crime by zeroing in on at-risk juvenile offenders. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Statistical analysis of criminal careers

    Författare :Orly Manor; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES;

    Sammanfattning : .... LÄS MER

  5. 4. Svenska narkotikamissbrukande kvinnor och män : missbruksförlopp och kriminalitet

    Författare :Siv Byqvist; Edle Ravndal; Stockholms universitet; []
    Nyckelord :SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Social work; Socialt arbete; socialt arbete; Social Work;

    Sammanfattning : The main concern of the thesis is the quantitative study of the progression of drug abuse and criminality among Swedish narcotics abusers at the beginning of the 1980s and at the beginning of the 1990s. The thesis comprises six articles that are based on data collected from two samples obtained from two research projects. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Violence among mentally disordered offenders : risk and protective factors

    Författare :Ulrika Haggård-Grann; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Sammanfattning : Background: Violence is one of the leading causes of unnatural deaths, and the consequences of violence for victims, victims families, offenders, and society at large involve extensive suffering and monetary costs. Improving strategies to prevent and reduce violence is of great importance, and refining techniques for risk assessments in forensic and correctional settings is assumed to be one way of doing so. LÄS MER