Exiled Governments: Their Official Records

Criminal careers in self-reports compared with official records.

One of the most basic questions in criminology is how to measure the key outcome variable of offending. The two most common measurement methods are to use official records of arrests/convictions or self-reports of offending. These two methods have different advantages and problems. For example, official records include only the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of offending, but the offences are recorded qu...

Who died in the Holocaust? Recovering names from official records.

The names of most Holocaust victims from Central and East Europe have remained unknown, but can be retrieved from official records, as illustrated here for the town of Liepāja, Latvia. Drawing on thirteen different sources, the authors have recovered the names and fates of about 7,000 of the 7,140 Jews once living there. The main source (5,700 names) is a census conducted during August 1941, th...

Experts and Their Records

Consider an environment where long-lived experts repeatedly interact with shortlived customers. In periods when an expert is hired, she chooses between providing a profitable major treatment or a less profitable minor treatment. The expert has private information about which treatment best serves the customer, but has no direct incentive to act in the customer’s interest. Customers can observe ...

Electronic Records Management - An Old Solution to a New Problem: Governments Providing Usable Information to Stakeholders

Prevalence, frequency, onset, desistance and criminal career duration in self-reports compared with official records.

AIM The main aim of this article is to compare prevalence and frequency, ages of onset and desistance, and criminal career duration, according to self-reports and convictions. METHOD In the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, 411 London males have been followed up from age 8 to age 48, in interviews and criminal records. RESULTS Virtually all males admitted at least one of eight offe...