Exploiting the coverage of administrative data to understand changing criminal careers and the causes of the crime drop: changing conviction patterns in the Scottish Offenders Index, 1989-2011
Background The status of the Scottish Offenders Index (SOI) as a census (n=all) of conviction proceedings in Scotland allows the adoption of research designs that would be prohibitively costly and time consuming to implement with more traditional survey approaches. This paper argues that this flexib...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Swansea University
2018-06-01
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| Series: | International Journal of Population Data Science |
| Online Access: | https://ijpds.org/article/view/528 |