Changing Patterns Of Delinquency And Crime: A Longitudinal Study In Racine - Softcover

Shannon, Lyle W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813382882 ISBN 13: 9780813382883

Publisher: Westview Press, 1991

Synopsis

This valuable study describes thirty-five years of research on juvenile delinquency and adult crime in Racine, Wisconsin. Lyle Shannon analyzes official police and court records for three Racine cohorts - people born in 1942, 1949, and 1955 - and reveals a wealth of information about spatial and temporal patterns of delinquency and crime.

Especially noteworthy is the focus on the relationship of social structure to delinquency and crime in urban neighborhoods. Individuals living within neighborhoods classified as more or less crime producing are shown to have proportionatly different justice system involvement. When we also consider race, ethnicity, and gender within these neighborhoods, we are better able to understand how individuals have quite different chains of experiences during socialization. Shannon examines the effectiveness of sanctions on young offenders as well as the connection between drugs and alcohol, delinquency and crime, and career continuity. The data suggest that for effective deterrence of crime we must reexamine the logic of current intervention and sanctioning practices, taking these new factors into account.

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About the Author

Lyle W. Shannon is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Iowa. He received the B.A. Degree from Cornell College in 1942, the M.A. (1947) and the Ph.D. (1951) from the University of Washington in Seattle. He taught at the University of Washington and then at the University of Wisconsin. In 1962 he went to the University of Iowa as Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. In 1970 he became Director of the Iowa Urban Community Research Center. Since 1991 he has been Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Emeritus Director but continues he research and writing. One of Shannon's major concerns has been to focus attention on the social settings which generate changing patterns of delinquency and crime, thus laying the groundwork for a more sophisticated approach to the solution of these problems than simply removing delinquents and criminals from the community. The United States Department of Justice has funded his research since the early 1970s.

Edition details

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813382882
• ISBN 13: 9780813382883
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 174