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Collected Papers of the Faculty of Law of the University of Rijeka / Raccolta di scritti della Facoltà di giurisprudenza dell'Università di Rijeka / Gesammelte Schriften der Rechtswissen, Vol. 30 No. 2, 2009.

Review article

Criminal Career

Dalibor Doležal ; Edukacijsko-rehabilitacijski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu

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Abstract

Criminal career, as a notion from criminological literature, was for the first time mentioned in Clifford R�. Shaw’s works in the nineteen thirties (1931, Kyvsgaard, 2003), however, it was introduced as a q�uantitative concept by Sheldon’s and Eleonor Glueck’s writings (Singer, 1996) which have been considered to be an originator of developing the criminal career concept. In most cases the criminal career is used as a concept in Croatia to describe someone’s criminal past, i.e. a type and number of criminal acts committed. Nevertheless, there is no research in Croatia which would scrutinise characteristics of this concept taken as a whole. F�or the most part, researches have been based on examinations of the separate parts of the criminal career concept. Information on this notion, as well as researches based on such information, have been used to create a preventive policy around the world. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to present the concept of criminal career in Croatia taken as a whole as well as its significance for development and advancement of criminological, court and penological practice and policy in the light of crime prevention.

Keywords

criminal career; concept; criminology

Hrčak ID:

52657

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/52657

Publication date:

14.12.2009.

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