Social Class and Violent Behavior

• NCJ Number: 110364
• Journal: Criminology Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Dated: (August 1986) Pages: 421-438
• Author(s): D Brownfield
• Date Published: 1986
• Length: 18 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Research (Applied/Empirical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

This paper examines the relationship between violent behavior and a variety of measures of social class.

Abstract

Police records from one study and questionnaire data from two studies are analyzed. The strength of the relationship between class and violence varies significantly, depending primarily on the measure of class used. The implications of these findings are potentially profound for class-based theories of crime and delinquency. Methodological implications of the finding are significant for sampling issues as well as for conceptualizations of class. (Publisher abstract)