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Introduction, and discarded in favor of still newer ones. In this process, empirically derived knowledge often takes a back seat to public sentiment. The public wants to feel safer, more secure, more . in the face of what appears to be a growing menace. The current “get tough on crime” approach is, in part, a wa

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Sample and Methods,Ranch, a camp maintained by the California Youth Authority (Jesness, 1965). He reasoned that these data might be useful in future years for long-term follow-up of these young delinquents. For similar reasons, he also retained the data collected during the Preston Typology Development Project (Jesnes

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Individual Offense Rates: Methodological Issues,enders. In those analyses, rates were estimated using aggregated data on the number of arrests and the amount of street time during the follow-up period. In the following chapters, attention will turn to issues related to the criminal careers of .: their stability and predictiveness. To address thes

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Stability of Individual Arrest Rates,tation policies and to existing methods for estimating their probable benefits. The idea that certain offenders will commit crimes at very high rates whenever they are free to do so (not incarcerated) spawned the belief that scarce public resources could be most effectively applied to ensuring that

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Correlates and Predictors of Arrest Rates for Incarcerated Offenders,ailable: lifestyle variables, such as drug use, marital/family status, and employment; background variables; and variables related to the prison or probation sentences of the offenders in the sample. These analyses were intended primarily to explore the usefulness of these data for understanding dif