By Britta Kyvsgaard
Britta Kyvsgaard examines the character of the "criminal occupation" via her longitudinal research of 45,000 Danish offenders. the knowledge, remarkable in measurement and caliber, permits the actual research of felony habit, even between really small demographic subgroups. Kyvsgaard determines offending styles for ladies and men, juveniles and middle-aged adults, and hired and unemployed participants. additionally, she examines the results of deterrence and incapacitation. Her findings recommend that rehabilitation is invaluable of extra study.
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OBJECTIVES, METHODOLOGY, AND SAMPLE Even if the knowledge acquired from the study of criminal careers is not immediately applicable, it still clearly represents a significant foundation for the planning of crime prevention strategies. It will undoubtedly be easier and more rewarding to design crime prevention initiatives if those initiatives are based on insight into how criminal careers develop. Research Themes on the Criminal Career The individual criminal career concerns a trajectory. A trajectory has a beginning and an end.
18 I. OBJECTIVES, METHODOLOGY, AND SAMPLE commits. In American studies, this has been shown by comparing information about self-reported criminality with data on registered crime (see, for example, Shannon, 1988). Danish studies of self-reported crime have also shown that it is those who commit the most crime who have been in contact with the police most often (Balvig, 1982; Kyvsgaard, 1992a; however, see also Greve, 1972). A Swedish study calculates the probability of being caught in the act for different types of crime (Ahlberg and Knutsson, 1988).
The current study examines all the important parameters of the criminal career, providing an interesting opportunity for studying holistically the relationship between diverse patterns in criminal careers. As will be seen, comparative analyses of various aspects of the criminal career provide a richer insight into the overall phenomenon. Finally, it should be noted that the Danish population is comparatively homogeneous in race, ethnicity, and social class. S. research. In addition, police registry data can be assumed more valid than that found in the United States, since it is less likely to reflect criminal justice system biases against racial minorities or the poor.
