Delinquent-Prone Communities

Informationen zum Autor 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. 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.

Product details

• Authors: Bronwyn Lind, Don Weatherburn, Don (Nsw Bureau of Crime Statistics a Weatherburn, Don Lind Weatherburn, Donald James Weatherburn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521026970
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02697-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories