Criminal Careers: Life and Crime Trajectories of Former Juvenile Offenders in Adulthood

Criminal Careers follows the lives and criminal behaviours of 2,397 people in Poland who as juveniles committed a crime and received a form of punishment from the juvenile court between the late 1980s and the year 2000. Through combining quantitative and qualitative research, their criminal careers, the differences between men and women, risk factors, and reasons for nondesistance are analysed.

Uniquely, the authors have used an extensive database of former juveniles, in which as many as 40%...