Justice Research Summary: Criminal Career Patterns

In May 2014, the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) released a Justice Research bulletin (NCJ 242545) describing criminal career patterns in adolescence and adulthood the criminal careers of offenders, specifically the links between offending patterns in adolescence and in adulthood. Many empirical studies have documented the prevalence (proportion of individuals who participate in crime at any given time) of offending in criminal careers . . .