Delinquent-Prone Communities
Part of Cambridge Studies in Criminology
- Authors:
- Don Weatherburn, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
- Bronwyn Lind, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
- Date Published: January 2005
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- isbn: 9780511031427
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Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the motivation to offend. But there are a number of empirical anomalies that cannot easily be reconciled with this interpretation of the evidence. Weatherburn and Lind argue that the transmission mechanism linking economic and social stress to crime is not offender motivation but disruption to the parenting process. They put forward an epidemic model of the genesis of delinquent-prone communities and show how this model resolves the empirical anomalies facing conventional interpretations of the disadvantage/crime relationship. This book offers compelling evidence which will stimulate debate in this area of criminology and will also interest academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field.
Read more- New evidence on neighbourhood effects on crime
- New evidence linking child neglect to crime
- New evidence on the effect of social and economic stress in generating epidemics of juvenile crime
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- Date Published: January 2005
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511031427
- contains: 22 tables
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
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.
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