... theory is that it accounts for both criminal behavior at the individual level and the distribution of crime rates across different social settings. Since crime rates in a social setting are a summary of the frequency of individual delinquent behaviors, they are determined by the fraction of individuals who receive excess of delinquent behavior patterns via the process of differential association. Simply stated ... ...

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... reintegration of criminal offenders serving the remainder of sentences while conditionally released into the community on parole. Parole officers spend most of their time preparing detailed offender case summaries. A case summary is a document that details an offender's criminal, social, psychological, and institutional adjustment history; it is completed after an in-depth interview between a parole officer and an offender, who is also ... ...

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