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Career Onset

Career Onset is a theoretical construct in criminology that denotes the initial point in time when an individual begins a sustained pattern of criminal behavior, distinguishing it from isolated delinquent acts by its implication of temporal continuity and behavioral escalation within the developmental trajectory of a criminal career.

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Characterizing Criminal Careers

Alfred Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen · Science · 1987 · 342 citations

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The Duration of Homeless Careers: An Exploratory Study

Irving Piliavin, Michael R. Sosin, Alex Westerfelt et al. · Social Service Review · 1993 · 152 citations

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Prevalence, frequency, onset, desistance and criminal career duration in self‐reports compared with official records

David P. Farrington, Maria M. Ttofi, Rebecca V. Crago et al. · Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health · 2014 · 137 citations

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A PROSPECTIVE TEST OF A CRIMINAL CAREER MODEL*

Arnold Barnett, Alfred Blumstein, David P. Farrington · Criminology · 1989 · 132 citations

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Childhood and Adolescent Predictors of Late Onset Criminal Careers

Georgia Zara, David P. Farrington · Journal of Youth and Adolescence · 2008 · 127 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. DP
    David P. Farrington

    University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

    8 publications · 597 citations

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    Alex R. Piquero

    The University of Texas at Dallas, United States

    5 publications · 140 citations

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  3. AB
    Arjan Blokland

    Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement, Netherlands

    3 publications · 116 citations

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  4. AB
    Alfred Blumstein

    Carnegie Mellon University, United States

    3 publications · 488 citations

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  5. LK
    Lila Kazemian

    John Jay College of Criminal Justice, United States

    3 publications · 133 citations

    3

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Institutions

97

  1. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    7 h-index

    11 publications

    939 citations

  2. University College London

    London, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    6 publications

    334 citations

  3. Carnegie Mellon University

    Pittsburgh, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    488 citations

  4. Florida State University

    Tallahassee, United States

    3 h-index

    3 publications

    85 citations

  5. Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    98 citations

  6. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

    New Brunswick, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    116 citations

  7. Leiden University

    Leiden, The Netherlands

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    71 citations

  8. University of Haifa

    Haifa, Israel

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    266 citations

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Venues

  1. Crime & Delinquency

    4 publications · 183 citations

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  2. European Journal of Criminology

    3 publications · 90 citations

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  3. Journal of Criminal Justice

    3 publications · 124 citations

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  4. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

    3 publications · 131 citations

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  5. Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health

    CBMH · 2 publications · 212 citations

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