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The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects
A criminal career can be either general, with the criminal committing different types of crimes, or specialized, with the criminal committing a specific type of crime. A central problem in the study of crime specialization is to determine, from the perspective of the criminal, which crimes should be...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064703 |
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author | Tumminello, Michele Edling, Christofer Liljeros, Fredrik Mantegna, Rosario N. Sarnecki, Jerzy |
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description | A criminal career can be either general, with the criminal committing different types of crimes, or specialized, with the criminal committing a specific type of crime. A central problem in the study of crime specialization is to determine, from the perspective of the criminal, which crimes should be considered similar and which crimes should be considered distinct. We study a large set of Swedish suspects to empirically investigate generalist and specialist behavior in crime. We show that there is a large group of suspects who can be described as generalists. At the same time, we observe a non-trivial pattern of specialization across age and gender of suspects. Women are less prone to commit crimes of certain types, and, for instance, are more prone to specialize in crimes related to fraud. We also find evidence of temporal specialization of suspects. Older persons are more specialized than younger ones, and some crime types are preferentially committed by suspects of different ages. |
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spelling | pubmed-36549212013-05-20 The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects Tumminello, Michele Edling, Christofer Liljeros, Fredrik Mantegna, Rosario N. Sarnecki, Jerzy PLoS One Research Article A criminal career can be either general, with the criminal committing different types of crimes, or specialized, with the criminal committing a specific type of crime. A central problem in the study of crime specialization is to determine, from the perspective of the criminal, which crimes should be considered similar and which crimes should be considered distinct. We study a large set of Swedish suspects to empirically investigate generalist and specialist behavior in crime. We show that there is a large group of suspects who can be described as generalists. At the same time, we observe a non-trivial pattern of specialization across age and gender of suspects. Women are less prone to commit crimes of certain types, and, for instance, are more prone to specialize in crimes related to fraud. We also find evidence of temporal specialization of suspects. Older persons are more specialized than younger ones, and some crime types are preferentially committed by suspects of different ages. Public Library of Science 2013-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC3654921/ /pubmed/23691257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064703 Text en © 2013 Tumminello et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Tumminello, Michele Edling, Christofer Liljeros, Fredrik Mantegna, Rosario N. Sarnecki, Jerzy The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects |
title | The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects |
title_full | The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects |
title_fullStr | The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects |
title_full_unstemmed | The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects |
title_short | The Phenomenology of Specialization of Criminal Suspects |
title_sort | phenomenology of specialization of criminal suspects |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3654921/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23691257 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064703 |
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