Escalation in criminal convictions: Measuring offence seriousness and identifying patterns

Francis, B. and Soothill, K. and Liu, J. (2008) Escalation in criminal convictions: Measuring offence seriousness and identifying patterns. In: 8th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, 2 - 5 September 2008, Edinburgh, UK. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

This talk examines the issue of escalation and de-escalation in offence seriousness over the criminal lifecourse, which is a relatively under-studied topic in criminal careers. There are various issues to confront; how to measure offence seriousness, how to determine desistance, and how to analyse the data statistically. We use a birth cohort of England and Wales males taken from the Offenders Index to address these issues, and apply a latent trajectory analysis to this data to determine whether there are different patterns of escalation and deescalation behaviour for this cohort.

Item Type: Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects: 5. Quantitative Data Handling and Data Analysis > 5.6 Multilevel Modelling
Depositing User: L-W-S user
Date Deposited: 20 Feb 2012 15:21
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2021 13:55
URI: https://eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/2165

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