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Author Shannon, Lyle W

Title Changing Patterns of Delinquency and Crime : a Longitudinal Study in Racine
Published Milton : Routledge, 2019

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 An Introduction to the Research on Delinquency and Crime; History of the Racine Research; The Orientation of This Volume; The Chapters Which Account for the Development and Persistence of Delinquency and Crime; Using the Neighborhood Data to Focus Attention on the Present; The Effectiveness of the Justice System; Type of Offender Careers and the Prediction Problem; 2 Assessing the Relationship of Adult Criminal Careers to Juvenile Careers; The Theoretical and Empirical Background
The Incidence and Prevalence of Delinquency and CrimeDemographic Variation; What the Interview Data Added; Understanding Institutional Effects; Delinquents' Perceptions of Their Behavior; Findings from the Multivariate Analysis; 3 The Relationship of Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime to the Changing City Structure; The Theoretical and Empirical Problem; The Problem of Homogeneous Spatial Units; Adding a Dynamic Model; Cohort, Age, Time Period, and Spatial Variation in the Prevalence and Incidence of Police Contacts; Cohort, Age, Time Period, and Spatial Variation in Offense Seriousness
Cohort, Age, Time Period, and Spatial Variation in the Prevalence and Incidence of Police ReferralsCohort, Age, Time Period, and Spatial Variation in Court Sanctions; The Hardening of the Inner City; 4 The Development of Serious Criminal Careers and the Delinquent Neighborhood; The Neighborhood in Theory and Research; Classifying Neighborhoods as Delinquency and Crime Producing; Disproportional Involvement in the Justice System; A Further Look at Consistency in Measures and Continuity in Careers; What Goes on Inside Each Neighborhood?; The Inner City vs. Other Neighborhoods; Summary
5 Variation in the Process of Developing Serious Criminal CareersIntroduction; Accounting for Variance in Offense Rate and Intervention Scores; Variables Utilized in Multiple Regression Analyses for the Juvenile Period; Interview Variable Effects During the Juvenile Period: Race/Ethnicity and Sex; Interview Variable Effects During the Adult Period: Race/Ethnicity and Sex; Returning to the Inner City Neighborhoods; Interview Variable Effects During the Juvenile Period: Place of Residence and Sex; Interview Variable Effects During the Adult Period: Place of Residence and Sex
Summarizing the Variance Accounted For6 A More Precise Evaluation of the Effects of Sanctions; Introduction to the Fourth Project; Concentration on Cohort Members with Non-traffic Contacts, Ages 13-22; An Overview of Age Periods; Beginning and Following Age Periods; Comparison of Analyses Based on Different Ages; The Dynamics of Delinquent Behavior and Official Response; Effects of Demographic, Ecological, and Career Variables on Future Offense Seriousness; Variation in Future Offense Seriousness by Cohort; Accounting for Continuity vs. Discontinuity
Notes Some Questions and Simplification of the Model
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ISBN 9780429695032
0429695039
9780429046247
0429046243