TY - JOUR
T1 - Age-crime relation in India
T2 - Similarity or divergence vs. hirschi/gottfredson inverted j-shaped projection?
AU - Steffensmeier, Darrell
AU - Lu, Yunmei
AU - Kumar, Sumit
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press.
Copyright:
Copyright 2019 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/1/1
Y1 - 2019/1/1
N2 - In this study, we used age-crime statistics from India to investigate the two core tenets of Hirschi and Gottfredson's (HG) invariance thesis that the age distribution of crime is always and everywhere adolescent spiked and thereafter declines continuously into elder ages. Besides comparisons to the inverted J-shaped distribution projected by HG, we further compared Indian age-crime patterns with those in United States (Western nation; main evidential source for HG invariance projection) and Taiwan (like India, a non-Western collectivist society). Findings suggest considerable divergence in India's age-crime patterns compared with HG invariance norm and US age-crime distributions, but overall similarity with Taiwan's age-crime schedules. Implications for research and theory on the age-crime relation more broadly are discussed.
AB - In this study, we used age-crime statistics from India to investigate the two core tenets of Hirschi and Gottfredson's (HG) invariance thesis that the age distribution of crime is always and everywhere adolescent spiked and thereafter declines continuously into elder ages. Besides comparisons to the inverted J-shaped distribution projected by HG, we further compared Indian age-crime patterns with those in United States (Western nation; main evidential source for HG invariance projection) and Taiwan (like India, a non-Western collectivist society). Findings suggest considerable divergence in India's age-crime patterns compared with HG invariance norm and US age-crime distributions, but overall similarity with Taiwan's age-crime schedules. Implications for research and theory on the age-crime relation more broadly are discussed.
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U2 - 10.1093/bjc/azy011
DO - 10.1093/bjc/azy011
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85061549201
SN - 0007-0955
VL - 59
SP - 144
EP - 165
JO - British Journal of Criminology
JF - British Journal of Criminology
IS - 1
ER -
