Crime: Accident or Disease: An Exploration Using Probability Models for the Generation of Macro-Criminological Data
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
- Vol. 8 (2) , 133-155
- https://doi.org/10.1177/002242787100800203
Abstract
One approach in practical criminology, which some call social work, is based on a disease model for most crimes. We have adopted another approach: for certain classes of crime, we have likened the occurrence of an offense to an accident or random event.Keywords
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