Police overestimation of criminal career homogeneity
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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 suggested that police personnel substantially overstated the homogeneity of criminal careers. Theimplications for operational police decision making are discussed and held to be profound.
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