NCJ Number
161769
Editor(s)
J D Hawkins
Date Published
1996
Length
347 pages
Annotation
These essays explore the practical implications of the authors' theoretical work for crime prevention and control.
Abstract
This book contains essays by nine leading criminologists that seek to answer major questions about crime, e.g.: (1) Why does crime persist over generations, within families, and within certain individuals? (2) Is crime the manifestation of an inherited latent trait or the result of a failure of socialization and norm-setting processes? and (3) Why do young people commit crimes? The authors seek to answer these and other questions by describing current theories of crime and the research evidence that supports them. The authors' views on crime causation go beyond traditional criminological theories of strain, cultural deviance, social control, differential association, and social learning to present emerging and integrated models of the origins of crime, including antisocial peer socialization, social development, interactional theory, behavior genetics, and community determinants. These essays seek to link factors at different levels in internally consistent theories of crime. Figures, indexes, references, tables