Companions in Crime - The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct

Klappentext The idea of peer influence as a cause of delinquency has been around at least since the 1930s! when Edwin Sutherland offered his theory of differential association. Although that theory and similar ones remain popular and have strong empirical support! more recent theories reject the idea of peer influence altogether. This book surveys the research literature on peer influence! shows that most offenders are imbedded in a network of friends and accomplices! and describes numerous possible mechanisms of peer influence. Zusammenfassung In Companions in Crime! Mark Warr organizes the extensive literature on peer influence and group delinquency into a coherent form for the first time. The principal thesis of the book is that deviant behavior is predominantly social behavior! and criminologists must eventually determine the significance of that fact. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Peers in the life course; 3. The group character of crime and delinquency; 4. Peers and delinquent conduct; 5. Applying peer explanations of delinquency; 6. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Warr, Mark (University of Texas Warr
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor), David P. Farrington (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2002
• EAN: 9780521009164
• ISBN: 978-0-521-00916-4
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Humanities, art, music > Psychology