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Age and Crime: The Social Relation

One of the most regular patterns in crime is called the age-crime curve: the tendency for criminal activity to peak in the late teens to early twenties. Why does this pattern exist? We take a quick look at the theoretical contribution of criminologist Travis Hirschi to explanations of this phenomenon, then quickly move to considerations of arrest data and the National Crime Victimization Survey to demonstrate the empirical regularity. It is not only true that the commission of crime follows the age-crime curve, but that victimization follows the same pattern. The parallel age curves of offending and suffering stem from the fact that crime is a social relation and the pattern of homophily in social relations.