Criminal Careers and "Career Criminals,"

Alfred Blumstein, Jacqueline Cohen, Jeffrey A. Roth, and Christy A. Visher, Editors, Panel on Research on Criminal Careers, Committee on Research on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 1. Issues in the Measurement of Criminal Careers; 3 2. The Impact of Substance Abuse on Criminal Careers; 4 3. The Relationship of Problem Drinking to Individual Offending Sequences; 5 4. Co-offender Influences on Criminal Careers; 6 5. The Rand Inmate Survey: A Reanalysis; 7 6. Accuracy of Prediction Models; 8 7. Some Methodological Issues in Making Predictions; 9 8. Purblind Justice: Normative Issues in the Use of Prediction in the Criminal Justice System; 10 9. Dynamic Models of Criminal Careers; 11 10. Random Parameter Stochastic-Process Models of Criminal Careers