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The first issue that properly concerns us in our analysis is to establish the proportion of the 1958 cohort population that occupy the status of adult criminal, that is, the proportion that had at least one official arrest in Philadelphia after the age of 17 (i.e., adult criminality). In keeping with prior work with the 1958 cohort, and with the majority of the extant literature, this measure of the proportion of a group that is officially recorded as criminal will be referred to as prevalence. The prevalence data reported here are a necessary first step in our analysis of continuity and discontinuity in the 1958 birth cohort.
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Tracy, P.E., Kempf-Leonard, K. (1996). The Prevalence of Adult Criminality. In: Continuity and Discontinuity in Criminal Careers. The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9844-9_5
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