Education and the Crime-Age Profile
Education and the Crime-Age Profile
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教育与犯罪年龄概况
DOI：
10.1093/bjc/43.1.141
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
2.6
通讯作者：
K. Hansen
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作者：
K. Hansen
到目前为止，犯罪倾向于在十几岁中后期和二十出头达到顶峰，然后随着年龄的增长而下降，这已经成为一个公认的事实。尽管如此，在过去的20年里，人们对犯罪与年龄之间关系的真实性质进行了多次辩论。本文使用从英格兰和威尔士16-25岁的年轻男性收集的自我报告数据，研究两组犯罪年龄概况：16岁离开学校的人和超过义务教育离校年龄的人。调查结果显示，对于三类犯罪（财产、处理和暴力犯罪），两个群体的犯罪年龄分布有很大不同。但是，这两种情况之间的差距可以用两个群体在与劳动力市场、教育、家庭、个人特征和人们居住的社区/地区有关的一些可观察变量方面的差异来解释。造成不同教育群体犯罪年龄分布差异的最重要因素是个人是否与父母住在一起、家人是否与警察有联系以及逃学。
That crime tends torise and peak in the mid to late teens and early twenties then declines with age has, by now, become an accepted fact. Despite this, over the last 20 years there have been numerous debates over the true nature of the relationship between crime and age. This paper uses self-report data collected from young males aged 16-25 in England and Wales to examine the crime-age profiles of two groups: those who leave school at 16 and those who stay on past the compulsory school leaving age. Findings show that for three categories of crime (property, handling and violent offences) the two groups have significantly different crime-age profiles. But that the gap between the two profiles can be accounted for by differences across the two groups in a number of observable variables related to the labour market, education, family, individual characteristics and the neighbourhood/area in which people live. The most important factors underpinning differences in the crime-age profiles by education group are whether an individual lives with their parents, family contact with the police and school truancy.