The Age–Crime Curve in Adolescence and Early Adulthood is Not Due to Age Di…

One of the most consistent findings in developmental criminology is the ‘‘age–crime curve’’—the observation that criminal behavior increases in adolescence and decreases in adulthood. Recently, Brown and Males (Justice Policy J 8:1–30, 2011) conducted an analysis of aggregate arrest, poverty, and population data from California and concluded that the widely-observed adolescent pe…