Delinquent-Prone Communities

Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the motivation to offend. But there are a number of empirical anomalies that cannot easily be reconciled with this interpretation of the evidence. Weatherburn and Lind argue that the transmission mechanism linking economic and social stress to crime is not offender motivation but disruption to the parenting process. They put forward an epidemic model of the genesis of delinquent-prone communities and show how this model resolves the empirical anomalies facing conventional interpretations of the disadvantage/crime relationship. This book offers compelling evidence which will stimulate debate in this area of criminology and will also interest academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Overview; 1. The ESIOM paradigm and its problems; 2. The insidious effects of economic and social stress on parenting; 3. Parenting, peers and delinquency; 4. Delinquency generation at the individual level; 5. Delinquency generation at the aggregate-level; 6. An epidemic model of offender population growth; 7. Theories of crime and place; 8. Prevention; Notes; References; Index.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Don Waetherburn is Director of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Australia.Bronwyn Lind is Deputy Director of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Australia.

Zusammenfassung

Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. This book challenges the conventional view that disadvantage causes crime because it motivates people to offend, and argues instead that disadvantage causes crime because it disrupts the parenting process.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Bronwyn Lind, Lind Bronwyn, Don Weatherburn, Donald James Weatherburn, Weatherburn Don
• Verlag: Cambridge Academic
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780521790949
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79094-9
• Abmessung: 160 mm x 236 mm x 21 mm
• Gewicht: 500 g
• Illustration: 22 tables, Tabellen, nicht spezifiziert
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Angewandte Psychologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; PSYCHOLOGY / Psychopathology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal or forensic psychology, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime