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Delinquent-Prone Communities.

Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. This book challenges the conventional view that disadvantage causes crime because it motivates people to offend, and argues instead that disadvantage causes crime because it disru...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Weatherburn, Donald James
Autres auteurs: Lind, Bronwyn, Blumstein, Alfred, Farrington, David
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Collection:Cambridge criminology series.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Overview; CHAPTER ONE The ESIOM paradigm and its problems; CHAPTER TWO The insidious effects of economic and social stress on parenting; CHAPTER THREE Parenting, peers and delinquency; CHAPTER FOUR Delinquency generation at the individual level; CHAPTER FIVE Delinquency generation at the aggregate level; CHAPTER SIX An epidemic model of offender population growth; CHAPTER SEVEN Theories of crime and place; CHAPTER EIGHT Prevention; Notes; References; Index.