Juvenile Delinquency and its Origins: An integrated theoretical approach (American Sociological Association Rose Monographs) - Softcover

Johnson, Richard E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521295165 ISBN 13: 9780521295161

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1979

Synopsis

First published in 1979, this book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile delinquency in Western society. The first few chapters summarise major delinquency theories and survey an extensive list of studies that demonstrate those theories. The author then develops a single model of individual causation from the divergent theoretical traditions. The model includes such variables as social class, parent-child relations, school experiences, strain, peer relations, personal values and the perceived risk of being caught in lawbreaking. Testing the model with information from 734 large-city adolescents results in several innovations in the measurement and conceptualisation of key variables in delinquency research. In his search for a better understanding of delinquency, the author shows the usefulness of examining the impact of all the variables at once and finds that the major theories of delinquency complement rather than contradict one another.

About this title

Book Description:

First published in 1979, this book examines past thought and research about the social and psychological causes of juvenile delinquency in Western society. In his search for a better understanding of delinquency, the author shows the usefulness of examining the impact of all the variables at once and finds that the major theories of delinquency complement rather than contradict one another.

About the Author:

Keith Johnson is Professor of Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley. He is the author of "Acoustic and Auditory Phonetics, Second Edition" (Blackwell, 2002), as well as numerous articles on phonetics and speech perception.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0521295165
• ISBN 13: 9780521295161
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 196