In this paper we present a "routine activity approach" for analyzing crime rate trends and cycles. Rather than emphasizing the characteristics of offenders, with this approach we concentrate upon the circumstances in which they carry out predatory…
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Mertons udledning af 5 forskellige typer af individuel tilpasning til det kulturelle mønster i en gruppe (generelt: i samfundet, subgrupper findes). 1. Konformitet 2. Innovation 3. Ritualisme 4. Tilbagetrækning 5. Oprør Konformitet er klart den mest…
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This paper argues that the increasing dominance in contemporary criminology of the logitudinal or cohort study is not justified on methodological grounds, that this research design has taken criminological theory in unproductive directions, has…
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It is hypothesized that collective efficacy, defined as social cohesion among neighbors combined with their willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good, is linked to reduced violence. This hypothesis was tested on a 1995 survey of 8782…
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By articulating a general theory of crime and related behavior, the authors present a new and comprehensive statement of what the criminological enterprise should be about. They argue that prevalent academic criminologywhether sociological,…
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A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost 10-fold temporarily during adolescence.…
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Shows that Shaw and mcKay's theory of disorganized communitiues (poverty, social heterogeniety, residential mobility and family siruption lead to social disorganization, increasign criminality anbd delinquency.
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This article examines conceptual issues relating to continuity and change in crime over the life course. Building on past efforts, we first distinguish self-selection from a cumulative, developmental process whereby delinquent behavior attenuates…
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Prior research examining the effect of self-control and delinquent peers on crime suggests that both variables are strong correlates and that controlling for one fails to eliminate the effects of the other. Yet prior research was based on indirect…
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Durante dos décadas seguidas, las del '80 y el '90, la Argentina experimentó como procesos paralelos y tal vez asociados, el crecimiento de sus tasas de desempleo y el incremento de la actividad criminal. Este estado de cosas parecería demostrar,…
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The Moving to Opportunity (MTO) housing experiment has proven to be an important intervention not just in the lives of the poor, but in social science theories of neighborhood effects. Competing causal claims have been the subject of considerable…
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Social disorganization theory focuses on the relationship between neighborhood structure, social control, and crime. Recent theoretical and empirical work on the relationship between community characteristics and crime has led to important…
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A leading sociological theory of crime is the
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This is the entire journal for the year volumes four and five are the most interesting for my work- especially four, which has an article by Fred C. Nelles, about the 24 hour school
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One of the most important findings of the classic Shaw and McKay delinquency research was that the distributional pattern of delinquency in Chicago remained relatively stable over time despite processes of ethnic and racial invasion and succession.…
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Clarke's classification of situational crime prevention tech- niques is designed to provide a conceptual analysis of situational strategies, and to offer practical guidance on their use in reducing criminal opportunities. It has developed in…
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