Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Foreword and Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER ONE The Career Concept in Criminological Research -- Summary -- PART ONE Objectives, Methodology, and Sample -- CHAPTER TWO Objectives -- Research Themes on the Criminal Career -- Other Themes of the Study -- Is a Danish Study Necessary? -- Presentation and Limitations -- Summary -- CHAPTER THREE Methodology and Validity -- From Committed Act to Reported and Registered Offense -- From Registered Crime to Solved Crime -- Summary -- CHAPTER FOUR Data and Data Quality -- The Primary Sample -- Register Research and Data Security -- The Workforce Register -- The Crime Statistics Register and Its Composition -- Crime Register Variables -- Quality Control -- Changes in the Study File -- The Final Sample -- Summary -- CHAPTER FIVE The Longitudinal Design -- The Delimitation of the Sample -- CHAPTER SIX Crime Trends and Criminal Policy in Denmark -- General Information -- What Is Criminalized -- The Crime Rate -- What Kinds of Sanctions Are Used -- Sanctioning Practice and Policy -- Stability and Change in the 1980s -- The Danish Crime Rate in a Comparative Perspective -- The Risk of Being Caught and Convicted in a Comparative Perspective -- Summary -- PART TWO The Criminal Career -- CHAPTER SEVEN Prevalence -- Prevalence and Age -- The Cumulative Prevalence -- Prevalence and Gender -- Cumulative Prevalence among Men and Women -- Prevalence and Socioeconomic Conditions -- Changes in the Prevalence of the Age Groups in the 1980s -- Changes in Male and Female Crime Prevalence in the 1980s -- Changes in Offenders' Employment Conditions during the 1980s -- Summary -- CHAPTER EIGHT Individual Crime Frequencies -- Measuring Individual Crime Frequencies -- The Uneven Crime Distribution -- Time between Offenses.

The Yearly Crime Frequency -- Crime Frequency and Age -- Trends in Annual Crime Frequencies -- Crime Frequency and Gender -- Crime Frequency and Employment Status -- Changes in Crime Frequency -- Summary -- CHAPTER NINE Criminal Onset -- Time of Onset -- Age at Onset and Gender -- Age at Onset and Social Conditions -- Time of Onset and Persistence in Crime -- Age at Onset and Crime Frequency -- Age at Onset and the Seriousness of Continued Crime -- Cause of Onset and of Persistence in Crime -- Summary -- CHAPTER TEN Recidivism and Duration of the Criminal Career -- Measurement of Duration -- Single-Registration Offenders -- Recidivism -- Duration and Age -- Duration and Gender -- Duration and Employment Status -- Summary -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Desistance from the Criminal Career -- Measuring Desistance -- Desistance and Prior Record -- Age and Desistance -- Gender and Desistance -- Employment Status and Desistance -- Summary -- CHAPTER TWELVE Specialization or Versatility in the Types of Offenses -- Measurement of Specialization -- Measuring Versatility -- Previous Research -- Specialization Measured by Number of Similar Offenses -- Specialization and Age -- Specialization and Gender -- Versatility -- Summary -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Escalation in the Seriousness of Crime -- Measurement of Escalation -- Previous Research -- The Danish Study -- Escalation and the Type of Crime -- Escalation and Imposed Sanction -- Age and the Seriousness of Crime -- Gender and the Seriousness of Crime -- Summary -- PART THREE Sanctions and Deterrence -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN The Incapacitative Effect of Sanctions -- Measurement of the Incapacitative Effect -- Assumptions -- The Effects of Current and Past Uses of Imprisonment -- Collective Incapacitation -- Collective Incapacitation in the Current Study -- Selective Incapacitation -- Selective Incapacitation in the Current Study.

The Effect of De Facto Selective Incapacitation -- Summary -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Deterrent Effect of Sanctions -- The Change in the Law -- The Sample -- Number of Recidivists -- The Extent and Celerity of Recidivism -- Seriousness of Recidivism -- Incapacitation -- Other Research on Specific Deterrence -- The General Deterrent Effect of Sanctions -- The Extralegal Effects of Sanctions -- Summary -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN Punishment, Treatment, and the Pendulum -- The Renaissance of the Treatment Concept and Criminological Research -- Resistance against a Treatment Renaissance -- Pendulum or Balance -- Summary -- PART FOUR Discussion of Results -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The Contributions and Challenges of Criminal Career Research -- The Criminal Career Concept -- Relationships between Prevalence, Frequency, Duration, and Desistance -- Individual Offending Frequency -- Onset -- Criminal Persistence and Desistance -- Specialization -- Escalation -- Gender Differences -- Social Status -- Varieties of Criminal Careers -- Methodological Issues -- Incapacitation -- Deterrence -- Treatment and Intervention -- Final Remarks -- References -- Index.

In this 2002 book, Britta Kyvsgaard examines the life circumstances and criminal behavior patterns of career criminals in Denmark.

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