Police Overestimation of Criminal Career Homogeneity

Police overestimation of criminal career homogeneity

Police presumptions about criminal career trajectories have been little studied. The exploratory study reported here involved 42 police staff of varying rank and experience. Participants were asked to complete a questionnaire which asked them to predict the type of offence that an individual was most likely to commit next from a given range of different offending scenarios. The findings suggest...

Career Criminal Prosecution: Potential Objectives

Selection Criteria for Career Criminal Programs

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 ...

Police Interviewing of Criminal Suspects: a Historical Perspective

This paper provides an historical overview of the development of police suspect interviewing. The paper highlights how different approaches developed based upon the prevailing needs of the time, from early approaches involving torture and threats, simple question and answer approaches, through to methods incorporating knowledge from the behavioural sciences such as persuasive interviewing. The ...