Legacies of Crime
A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys
Part of Cambridge Studies in Criminology
- Author: Peggy C. Giordano, Bowling Green State University, Ohio
- Date Published: April 2010
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521879712
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Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique vulnerabilities of their children. Giordano identifies family dynamics that foster the intergenerational transmission of crime, violence, and drug abuse, rejecting the notion that such continuities are based solely on genetic similarities or even lax, inconsistent parenting. The author breaks new ground in directly exploring - and in the process revising - the basic tenets of classic social learning theories, and confronting the complications associated with the parent's gender. Legacies of Crime also identifies factors associated with resilience in the face of what is often a formidable package of risks favoring intergenerational continuity.
Read more- Centers on two intrinsically interesting topics - the world of crime and the experiences of highly vulnerable children
- Focus is on compelling, highly readable narratives of lives, rather than statistical analyses
- The idea of 'intergenerational transmission' is well accepted (the apple doesn't fall far from the tree …), but surprisingly has not often been studied directly
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- Date Published: April 2010
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521879712
- length: 264 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.56kg
- contains: 1 b/w illus. 6 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.Instructors have used or reviewed this title for the following courses
- Crime Over the Life Course
- Crime Victims in Society
- Crime and inequality over the life course
- Criminal Justice Systems
- Criminal Offender
- Criminology
- Deviant Behavior
- Foundations of Criminal Justice
- Gender, Crime, and Justice
- Intro to Sociology
- Juvenile Delinquency
- Juvenile Delinquency & Juvenile Justice
- Profiles of Diviant Behavior
- Seminar in Life-Course Criminology
- Seminar-Issues in Criminal Justice
- Sociology of Deviancy
- The Myths of Crime
- The nature of crime
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