Youth Crime in an Urban Lower Class Community
ثبت نشده
چکیده
منابع مشابه
EFFECTIVE MULTI-AGENCY SYSTEMS FOR EFFECTIVE URBAN CRIME PREVENTION Role of the Community in the Integrated Approach (multidisciplinary approach) and Establishment of an Effective Multi-Agency Cooperation and Collaboration System for Urban Crime Prevention
They also show that the nature of the sanction does not make any difference, unless it includes one of those few programmes “carefully designed to target the specific characteristics and problems of offenders that can be changed” (Sherman, 2002, 351). The number of police officers or the severity of court sentences do not figure among the factors that affect whether a youth will stop offending ...
متن کاملRelationship between Social Capital and Crime (Case study: Prisoners of Tehran Prisons)
Social capital, due to its content lies in the social damage's realm. Considering the mutual effects therein, the objective here is to assess the correlation between social capital with identifying the correlation between social capital and crimes among convicted young prisoners in Greater Tehran prison. The method adopted in this study is of survey type by applying a random sample of 190 priso...
متن کاملGender 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...
متن کاملCommunity Correlates of Rural Youth Violence
Research limited to large urban areas leaves out as much of the U.S. population as it captures. According to the 1990 census (U.S. Department of Commerce, 1992), only 49 percent of the U.S. population lives in urbanized areas of 500,000 or more, 25 percent lives in fully rural settings (i.e., places with populations of no more than 2,500), and another 12 percent lives in towns or cities of fewe...
متن کاملThe impact of psychopathology, race, and environmental context on violent offending in a male adolescent sample.
Research has identified a multitude of demographic, psychological, and contextual factors that are associated with violent offending among youth. However, much of the previous research has focused on single factors, and little is known about the effects of these various factors in tandem. The present study examines whether certain community factors impact the effects of race and psychopathology...
متن کامل