Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals" (Volumes I & II)

Washington, D. C: National Academy Press, 1986 WYSIWYG pricing--no added shipping charge for standard shipping within USA. Two volumes, both full blue cloth with foil titles on front board & spine. Vol. I: ISBN 0-309-03684-4, xv, 458 pp, bibliography, index. Vol. II: ISBN 0-309-03683-6, xi, 404 pp, chapter bibliographies. Top corner of front board bumped on both volumes, otherwise fine. Vol. I contents: studying criminal careers; participation in criminal careeres; dimensions of active criminal careers; methodological issues in criminal career research; crime control strategies using criminal career knowledge; use of criminal career information in criminal justice decision making; agenda for future research. Appendices: participation in criminal careers, by Christy A. Visher & Jeffrey A. Roth; research on criminal careers: individual frequency rates & offense seriousness, by Jacqueline Cohen; workshop on criminal careers: program & participants; biographical sketches, panel members & staff. Vol. II contents: issues in the measurement of criminal careers, by Joseph G. Weis; impact of substance abuse on criminal careers, by Eric D. Wish & Bruce D. Johnson; relationship of problem drinking to individual offending sequences, by James J. Collins; co-offender influences on criminal careers, by Albert J. Reiss, Jr.; the Rand inmate survey: a reanalysis, by Christy A. Visher; accuracy of prediction models, by Stephen D. Gottfredson & Don M. Gottfredson; some methodological issues in making predictions, by John B. Copas & Roger Tarling; purblind justice: normative issues in the use of prediction in the criminal justice system, by Mark H. Moore; dynamic models of criminal careers, by Christopher Flinn; random parameter stochastic-process models of criminal careers, by John P. Lehoczky. Shipping weight 5 lbs.. . Near Fine/No dj. 26 X 18½ cm.