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377 The relationship between aging and criminal activity has been noted since the beginnings of criminology. For example, Adolphe Quetelet (1831/1984) found that the proportion of the population involved in crime tends to peak in adolescence or early adulthood and then decline with age. In contemporary times, the FBI s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) arrest data (1935 1997), particularly the Crime Index (homicide, robbery, rape, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, auto theft), document the consistency of the age effect on crime. They also reveal a long-term trend toward younger age-crime distributions in more modern times.
Chronological age and physiological change, as well as subjective awareness of aging, are related but separate phenomena (White, 1988). ... theories that emphasized social factors were invalid or not relevant to the explana-tion of crime. Rather, their argument was that the age-crime relationship was a ... to where offending is rare among older ...
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