Delinquent-Prone Communities

Auteur

Don Waetherburn is Director of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Australia.

Texte du rabat

This book puts forward a model of delinquent-prone communities showing that disadvantage causes crime through disruption of the parenting process.

Résumé
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 disrupts the parenting process.

Contenu

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.