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An important question in criminology is the study of the way that people’s level of criminal activity varies through their lives. Can it be said that there are “career criminals” of different kinds? Are there particular patterns of persistence in the levels of crimes committed by individuals? These issues have been studied by criminologists for many years. Of continuing importance is the question of whether there are distinct subgroups or clusters within the population, or whether observed criminal behaviors are part of a continuum. Naturally, one pattern of particular interest is “desistance’, the discontinuation of regular offending.
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(2002). Life Course Data in Criminology. In: Ramsay, J.O., Silverman, B.W. (eds) Applied Functional Data Analysis: Methods and Case Studies. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-22465-7_2
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