Delinquent Networks

This book presents a study of co-offering relations among youths under twenty-one suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991-5. In total, the study includes just over 22,000 individuals suspected of around 29,000 offences. Jerzy Sarnecki employs the methods of network analysis which makes it possible to study the ties, social bonds, interactions, differential associations and connections that are central to many of the sociologically oriented theories on the aetiology of crime. Up to now, network analysis has been used only rarely in the criminological context. The book discusses many aspects of Stockholm's delinquent networks such as the existence of delinquent gangs and a criminal underworld, the durability of delinquent relations, and the choice of co-offenders with respect to sex, age, residential location, ethnic background and earlier delinquent experience. It also considers the effects of societal intervention on criminal networks. This unique study will appeal to a wide audience.

About the author

Jerzy Sarnecki is Professor of General Criminology at Stockholm University and has published widely on crime and delinquency.

Summary

This study of co-offending relations among over 22,000 youths in Stockholm employs the methods of network analysis which makes it possible to study the ties, social bonds, interactions, differential associations and connections that are central to many of the sociologically oriented theories on the aetiology of crime.

Product details

• Authors: Jerzy Sarnecki, Sarnecki Jerzy
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor), David P. Farrington (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 04.11.2014
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology
• EAN: 9780521802390
• ISBN: 978-0-521-80239-0
• Pages: 214
• Dimensions (packing): 15.7 x 23.5 x 1.6 cm
• Weight (packing): 468 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Penology; Sweden; Juvenile offenders