SOCIAL ROLES - LINKING INDIVIDUALS TO CRIMINAL AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR (FROM CRIME AND DELINQUENCY, A READER, 1970 BY CARL A BERSANI - SEE NCJ-06248)

• NCJ Number: 10201
• Author(s): R R KORN; L M MCCORKLE
• Date Published: 1959
• Length: 17 pages
• Corporate Author: Macmillan
• Publication Format: Document
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: REPRINTED FROM CRIMINOLOGY AND PENOLOGY, BY R KORN & L MCCORKLE, HOLT RINEHART & WINSTON, 1959

Annotation

ANALYSIS OF DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR IN LIGHT OF THE CONTRIBUTING FACTORS OF ORGANIZATION AND INTERACTION OF VARIOUS SOCIAL ROLES AND GROUPS.

Abstract

THE ROLE CONCEPT IS DISCUSSED IN RELATION TO THE SELECTIVE DISTRIBUTION OF CRIMINAL ROLES AMONG THE SEXES, THE DISPROPORTIONATE INCIDENCE OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY AMONG THE YOUNG AND IN URBAN LOCALITIES, AND THE DISPROPORTIONATE INVOLVEMENT OF MEMBERS OF THE LOWER SOCIOECONOMIC CLASSES.