When I heard about these juveniles, I wondered who they were and what types of offenses they'd committed.
New York falls squarely in the middle of this trend, eliminating early parole for violent crimes, but maintaining it for other types of offenses.
Just one quarter had committed the most serious types of offenses, such as murder or sexual assault, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, which is based at Syracuse University and obtained the records through an open records request.
But Yankees caps and clothing have dominated the crime blotter for so long, in so many parts of the city and in so many types of offenses, that it defies an easy explanation.
It doesn't mention profanity, racism, bigotry and other types of offenses, however.
The increased risk for offending was not specifically found for sexual offenses, instead it was found for various types of offenses.
In addition, the time it takes for someone to recidivate for a drug-involved offense is much shorter than other types of offenses (Holleran 2002).
Justice staff also provided information regarding "most serious" current offense, categorized as interpersonal (person- or weapon-related) versus all other types of offenses.
In bivariate regressions (Additional file 2: Table S2), linkage to firearms and firearm recovery were the only characteristics not associated with risk for incident arrest for all types of offenses.
Researchers often compare offenders on their demographics (e.g., age, gender, and race), location (e.g., cross-national comparisons), types of offenses committed (e.g., property crime and violent crime), and crime data sources (e.g., official records and self-reports).
