Delinquent-Prone Communities
Delinquent-Prone Communities
Bronwyn Lind , NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research
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This book challenges the conventional view that disadvantage causes crime because it motivates people to offend. It argues that disadvantage causes crime because it disrupts the parenting process. The theory put forward in the book maintains that it takes a long time for disadvantage to increase the level of crime in a neighborhood. However, once the level of economic and social stress in a neighborhood reaches a critical level, it can set off an epidemic of juvenile offending.
- 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
Product details
January 2001Hardback
9780521790949
222 pages
236 × 160 × 21 mm
0.5kg
22 tables
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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.
