Elucidating both the non-existent and extensive violent criminal career

Violent Rebellions and Criminal States

A legitimate state uses violence to enforce contractual agreements within its territory. Criminal organizations may enforce transactions that are legally restricted or banned, or otherwise ignored by the legitimate state. In this sense, criminal organizations may also function as states. Legitimate states may be threatened by violent rebellions. I model how legitimate states and rebellions may ...

Criminal profiles of violent juvenile sex and violent juvenile non sex offenders: an explorative longitudinal study.

Few studies have longitudinally investigated the criminal profiles of violent juvenile sex and violent juvenile non-sex offenders. To make up for this lack, this study used police records of juveniles to determine the nature of the criminal profiles of violent sex offenders (n = 226) and violent non-sex offenders (n = 4,130). All offenders committed their first offense in 1996 and were followed...

Career Criminal Prosecution: Potential Objectives

Criminal Career Research in the United Kingdom

The criminal career approach is an exciting new perspective in criminology that has been greatly stimulated by the US National Academy of Sciences Panel on Criminal Career Research (Blumstein et al. 1986), of which I was privileged to be a member. It is not a criminological theory but a framework within which theories can be proposed and tested. This approach defines a 'criminal career' as the ...

Non-existent authors.

Authorship of bioscientific papers is a serious business. Most journals have policies that encourage transparency, making it clear who did what, but some authors take it less seriously than editors might like, and indexers don’t always get it right. Searching for common abbreviations (⇓) in PubMed (1809–2017), Embase (1974–2017), Ovid Medline (1946–2017), Philosopher’s Index (1966–2016), and Ps...