Delinquent-Prone Communities

by Don Weatherburn, Bronwyn Lind

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521026970
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/02/2006
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Criminology
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	7.17(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.75(d)
Lexile:	1570L (what's this?)

About the Author

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

Bronwyn Lind is Deputy Director of the New South Wales Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, Australia.

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.