%0 Journal Article
%T New York City Offender Ages: How Variable Over Time?
%J Homicide studies
%D 1999
%A Monkkonen, E. H.
%V 3
%N 3
%P 256-270
%X This research note contrasts 19th- and 20th-century New York City age- and gender-specific offender rates. Earlier work has established that there is a peakedness in age-specific offending between 20 and 30, whereas more recent data show a much younger high offending rate. In sharp contrast, the 19th-century New York data show a relatively flat distribution from the early 20s onward. This suggests that the current age rates are a new phenomenon and that young offenders are a separate, nontraditional group, overlaid onto the more traditional age groups.<p />
%G 
%I SAGE Publishing
%@ 1088-7679
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767999003003004