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Patterns of Criminal Behavior in a Birth Cohort

NCJ Number
91286
Author(s)
L M Collins; N Cliff; R A Cudeck; D J McCormick; J L Zatkin
Date Published
Unknown
Length
44 pages
Annotation
As an attempt to develop criminal behavior typologies, this paper describes an exploratory empirical approach to identifying patterns in criminal behavior.
Abstract
Two data-reduction techniques, factor analysis and cluster analysis, are applied to the official arrest records of a Danish birth cohort of 28,879 men. Four factors emerged from the factor analysis: general crime, traffic offenses, white-collar crime, and sex offenses. The cluster analysis revealed general crime and traffic offenses clusters. A substantial number of offenses are shown by both analyses to be independent of any pattern. The results show good split-sample cross-validation and for the most part are robust across the two analytic approaches. A total of 24 references and 1 footnote are given. Tabular data are appended. (Author abstract modified)

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