Legacies of Crime

by Peggy Giordano and Peggy C. Giordano

Book Overview

Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children - a majority now adolescents themselves - depict the adults' economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique vulnerabilities of their children. Giordano identifies family dynamics...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521705517
• ISBN13: 9780521705516
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"