Child’s Gender, Young Fathers’ Crime, and Spillover Effects in Criminal Behavior

Investigating the Impact of Environmental Poverty on Criminal Behavior of Young People in Marginal Areas

This study was examined to investigate the impact of environmental poverty on the criminal behavior of young people in marginal areas. The population of this study included all the youths in the marginalized schools of Isfahan. Sampling was done randomly. The sample size includes 358 students in marginalized areas. For youth with high PC, significant factors included high levels of attitudes to...

Criminal Records in High Crime Neighborhoods

This paper examines the arrest records of sample of young minority men living in high crime neighborhoods in Rochester and then compares them with records of homicide victims and suspects. In a random sample of 303 minority men over age 17 years old whose home schools were in the crescent area of Rochester, 39% had a record of arrest within the past four years. The data indicate that records of...

Gender and Crime: An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory among Youth in Babol (A City in Northern Part of Iran)

This  paper  presents  an attempt  to use Agnew’s General Strain Theory ( GST) (1992) for explanation of the  criminal behavior  differences between  young males and females in Babol, a city in northern part of Iran. General Strain Theory (GST) is essentially regarded as a set of ideas formulated to explain the occurrence of crime as a result of the strain in social life. This study explores th...

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Gender Differences in Criminal Sentencing

Objective. Many studies find that females benefit from their gender in sentencing decisions. Few researchers, however, address whether the gender-sentencing association might be stronger for some crimes, such as minor nonviolent offending, and weaker for other offenses, such as serious violent crime. Method. Using a large random sample of convicted offenders in Texas drawn from a statewide proj...