Modeling Criminal Careers as Departures From a Unimodal Population Age–Crime Curve: The Case of Marijuana Use
将犯罪历程建模为对单峰总体年龄—犯罪曲线的偏离：大麻使用案例
A major aim of longitudinal analyses of life course data is to describe the within- and between-individual variability in a behavioral outcome, such as crime. Statistical analyses of such data typically draw on mixture and mixed-effects growth models. In this work, we present a functional analytic point of view and develop an alternative method that models individual crime trajectories as departures from a population age-crime curve. Drawing on empirical and theoretical…