this article is a study about investigation of relationship between social support and youth's crime. the comparison of viewpoints and different definitions of social support (ratous, kessler and heller) and crime (hirschi's social control and strain's agnew) has been performed in order to examinie and compare enjoyment level of criminal and non-criminal of ilam city youth from s...

Research concerning Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) General Theory of Crime has paid inadequate attention to the reliability and validity of self-control measures in non-Western settings, to the relationship between parenting and self-control in non-Western settings, and to Gottfredson and Hirschi’s assertion that macro-level cultural forces have little or no influence on criminal behavior. Th...

[[[]]] That most young offenders eventually 'mature' out of deviant behaviour is one of the most well-known findings in criminology. What is less well known is what this change process involves. It is argued that this lack of understanding stems from the shortcomings of the traditional criminological framework for examining desistance and other phenomena. Narrative studies is suggested as an al...

illicit drug abuse continues to be a growing problem worldwide and a serious hazard to humanity. the crimes associated with drug abuse include sale or possession of drugs; property crimes or prostitution to support drug habits; and violent crimes reflecting out-of-control behavior. in fact, an offender drug use is involved in more than half of all violent crimes and in 60 to 80 percent of child...

Although often lumped together, longitudinal and developmental approaches to crime are not the same. Longitudinal research invokes a methodological stance--collecting and analyzing data on persons (or macrosocial units) over time. Ironically, however, one of the objections to existing longitudinal research has been that it often looks like, or produces results equivalent to, cross-sectional res...