Don Weatherburn, Bronwyn Lind

Delinquent-Prone Communities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 520g
• ISBN-13: 9780521790949
• ISBN-10: 0521790948
• Artikelnr.: 35007412

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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.