{"id":7237,"date":"2019-05-22T15:54:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/age-crime_curve\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T15:54:42","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T15:54:42","slug":"age-crime_curve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/age-crime_curve\/","title":{"rendered":"Age-crime curve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Age differences in the frequency of criminal behaviour. &nbsp;What such a curve shows is a rapid increase in deviant behaviour during adolescence, followed by an equally rapid decrease in such behavior (see figure below). &nbsp;Its onset has been attributed to increases in testosterone levels, and to environmental influences such as deviant families, deviant peers, and the media. &nbsp;While most political and social scientists agree that the aggregate age-crime curve reaches a peak during late adolescence and declines rapidly thereafter, there are ongoing debates about the theoretical meaning of this trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/image077.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\" style=\"text-align: center; \">Age- specific arrest rates differences for US FBI index offences (viz., aggravated assault, car theft, homicide, larceny, rape, robbery) in 1980. From Blumstein, A., Cohen, J., &amp; Farrington, D.P. (1988). Criminal career research: its value for criminology. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Criminology<\/span>, 26, 1-35.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adolescent_growth_spurt\">Adolescent growth spurt<\/a>, Aggressive behaviour, Testosterone<\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Age differences in the frequency of criminal behaviour. &nbsp;What such a curve shows is a rapid increase in deviant behaviour during adolescence, followed by an equally rapid decrease in such behavior (see figure below). &nbsp;Its onset has been attributed to increases in testosterone levels, and to environmental influences such as deviant families, deviant peers, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/age-crime_curve\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Age-crime curve&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}