Delinquent-Prone Communities

by Bronwyn Lind and Don Weatherburn

Book Overview

Despite a century of effort, criminologists do not yet fully understand the relationship between disadvantage and crime. The balance of evidence suggests that economic and social stress increase the risk of involvement in crime by increasing the motivation to offend. But there are a number of empirical anomalies that cannot easily be reconciled with this interpretation of the evidence. Weatherburn and Lind argue that the transmission mechanism linking...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521790948
• ISBN13: 9780521790949
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"