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Age-Crime Curve Modeling

Age-crime curve modeling fits statistical functions to the well-known relationship between age and offending: crime rises sharply in adolescence, peaks in the late teens or early twenties, and declines through adulthood. Brought to prominence by Hirschi and Gottfredson's 1983 claim that this curve is invariant, and elaborated by Farrington, the modeling task is to capture its characteristic skewed, single-peaked shape and to debate what it implies about the causes of crime.

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Statistical Modeling of the Age-Crime Curve
Taxonomic method record · regression-model / criminology
  • Hirschi, T., & Gottfredson, M. (1983). Age and the explanation of crime. American Journal of Sociology, 89(3), 552–584. · DOI 10.1086/227905
  • Farrington, D. P. (1986). Age and crime. Crime and Justice, 7, 189–250. · DOI 10.1086/449114
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