Legacies of Crime - A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys

Informationen zum Autor Peggy C. Giordano is Distinguished Research Professor at Bowling Green State University. Her research - published in leading journals such as Criminology, the American Sociological Review, and the American Journal of Sociology - has long focused on the causes of juvenile delinquency, and particularly on similarities and differences in male and female pathways to criminal involvement. Her analyses of the adult lives of a sample of delinquent youth have twice won the American Sociological Association's James F. Short, Jr, award for best article, and this volume extends this research in a unique exploration of the lives of the children of the original study subjects. Klappentext Follows a cohort of seriously delinquent girls and boys over twenty years! documenting the effects of their criminal involvement on their children. Zusammenfassung Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with the women! men and children depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement! and the impact on their children. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Literature review and conceptual framework; 3. The Ohio Life Course study; 4. OLS adult respondents: offending, surviving, parenting; 5. How have the OLS children fared?; 6. The intergenerational transmission process; 7. 'Success stories': it's all relative; 8. Theoretical and policy implications of the OLS study.

Product details

• Authors: Peggy C. Giordano, Peggy C. (Bowling Green State University Giordano, Giordano Peggy C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.02.2010
• EAN: 9780521879712
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87971-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Sociology: family & relationships, Family & relationships, Social services & welfare, criminology, Crime & criminology, Population & demography, Juvenile offenders, Offenders