TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1999//
TI  - New York City Offender Ages: How Variable Over Time?
JO  - Homicide studies
A1  - Monkkonen, E. H.
SP  - 256
EP  - 270
VL  - 3
IS  - 3
N2  - 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 />
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SN  - 1088-7679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767999003003004
ID  - ref1
ER  -