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Although the decline of crime with age is a universal phenomenon, there has been a lot of discussion about the factors explaining this decline. As Hirschi and Gottfredson have stated, age must be viewed as exerting a direct effect on crime (Hirschi/Gottfredson, 1983). According to their invariance hypothesis and its corollaries, the age-crime curve can neither be explained by presently known social and cultural factors nor by certain events in life.
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Mischkowitz, R. (1994). Desistance from a Deliquent Way of Life? . In: Weitekamp, E.G.M., Kerner, HJ. (eds) Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior. NATO ASI Series, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0864-5_16
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