dc.contributor.author | Piquero, Alex R | |
dc.contributor.author | Jennings, Wesley G | |
dc.contributor.author | Farrington, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-05-03T12:00:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-05-03T12:00:12Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
dc.date.modified | 2014-08-28T05:08:49Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-4278 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1177/0022427811424505 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/44654 | |
dc.description.abstract | Objectives: 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.description.publicationstatus | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Sage Publications, Inc | |
dc.publisher.place | United States | |
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublication | N | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 53 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 74 | |
dc.relation.ispartofissue | 1 | |
dc.relation.ispartofjournal | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | |
dc.relation.ispartofvolume | 50 | |
dc.rights.retention | Y | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Criminology | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Causes and prevention of crime | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 4402 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 440201 | |
dc.title | The Monetary Costs of Crime to Middle Adulthood: Findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.type.description | C1 - Articles | |
dc.type.code | C - Journal Articles | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance | |
gro.date.issued | 2013 | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Piquero, Alex R. | |