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dc.contributor.authorPiquero, Alex R
dc.contributor.authorJennings, Wesley G
dc.contributor.authorFarrington, David
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:00:12Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:00:12Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.date.modified2014-08-28T05:08:49Z
dc.identifier.issn0022-4278
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0022427811424505
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/44654
dc.description.abstractObjectives: Monetary cost estimates of criminal careers have been limited to specific samples, specific ages, and focused on the United States. This article is the first to examine the costs of a life course of crime in the United Kingdom. Method: This study uses longitudinal data from 411 South London males from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) to derive costs-of-crime estimates from childhood to middle adulthood (ages 10 to 50). Additional features include a calculation of cost estimates across distinct offending trajectories and centering on costs per offender. Results: Offending over the life course imposes a considerable amount of economic and social costs and these costs are differentially distributed across offending trajectories. The cost of high-rate chronic offending is nearly two and a half to ten times greater than the cost of high adolescence peaked offending, very low-rate chronic offending, and low adolescence peaked offending, respectively. It is estimated that a male high-rate chronic offender on average would impose an annual cost of 㱸 ($29) per U.K. citizen or a lifetime cost of 㷴2 ($1,185) per U.K. citizen. Conclusions: As the average and total costs of crime were significantly different across offending trajectories, with high-rate chronics imposing the most financial burden, adopting prevention and intervention strategies aimed at reducing the number of high-rate chronics and/or speeding up their eventual desistance will offer many savings to the public and perhaps turn those negative costs into positive contributions.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSage Publications, Inc
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom53
dc.relation.ispartofpageto74
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
dc.relation.ispartofvolume50
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCauses and prevention of crime
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4402
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440201
dc.titleThe Monetary Costs of Crime to Middle Adulthood: Findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance
gro.date.issued2013
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPiquero, Alex R.


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