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Peer reviewedDunn, Christopher S. – Criminal Justice and Behavior, 1981
Discusses the relationship between changes in delinquency prevalence over time and prediction error. Data from a 21-year British longitudinal study exemplify the formal relationships that are derived. Results indicate statistically, as prevalence increases, a relative increase in false negative errors and a decrease in false positive errors…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cohort Analysis, Delinquency, Foreign Countries
