Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency

Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency
Author: Sheldon Glueck
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 1951
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

This authors studied two cohorts of juveniles -- 500 persistently delinquent boys, and 500 non-delinquents -- in an attempt to establish the causes of criminal behaviour. Factors studied included : family, ethnic derivation, age, intelligence, area of residence, body types and medical, social and psychological factors. The data used by the Gluecks was re-analysed in 1995 by Robert Sampson and John H. Laub, published their results in two books : Crime in the making, and Shared beginnings, divergent lives.

Family Environment and Delinquency

Family Environment and Delinquency
Author: Sheldon Glueck
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2013-06-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136250352

The International Library of Sociology (ILS) is the most important series of books on sociology ever published. Founded in the 1940s by Karl Mannheim, the series became the forum for pioneering research and theory, marked by comparative approaches and analysis of new disciplines, such as the sociology of youth and culture. Spanning volumes by Parsons, Dickinson and Ossowski, the history of the ILS is the history of modern sociology.

Crime in the Making

Crime in the Making
Author: Robert J. Sampson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780674176058

Based on the re-analysis of Sheldon and Eleanor Gluecks' mid-century study of 500 delinquents and 500 non-delinquents from childhood to adulthood, this informal social control theory accepts the importance of childhood behaviour but rejects the idea that a.

Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Approach

Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Approach
Author: James Burfeind
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2011-01-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1449654339

Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Approach, Second Edition offers a comprehensive introduction to juvenile delinquency. Now in a more concise and accessible format, this text cultivates an understanding of juvenile delinquency by examining and linking key sociological and criminological theories and research. Biological and psychological apporaches to delinquency are covered, as well as responses to deliquent behavior includuing prevention, early intervention, and contemporary juvenile justice.

The Professional Thief

The Professional Thief
Author: Chic Conwell
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 269
Release: 1956
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226780511

This monograph by a professional thief—with the aid of Edwin H. Sutherland's expert comments and analyses—is a revealing sociological document that goes far to explain the genesis, development, and patterns of criminal behavior. "Chic Conwell," as the author was known in the underworld, gives a candid and forthright account of the highly organized society in which the professional thief lives. He tells how he learned to steal, survive, succeed, and ultimately to pay his debt to society and prepare himself for full and useful citizenship. The Professional Thief presents in amazing detail the hard, cold facts about the private lives and professional habits of pickpockets, shoplifters, and conmen, and brings into focus the essential psychological and sociological situations that beget and support professional crime.

The Social Structure of Right and Wrong

The Social Structure of Right and Wrong
Author: Donald Black
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2014-05-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 148326064X

The Social Structure of Right and Wrong focuses on formulations that predict and explain the nature of social control throughout the world and across history. The publication first offers information on social control as a dependent variable, crime as a social control, and compensation and the social structure of misfortune. Discussions focus on the theory of compensation, traditional self-help, concept of social control, varieties of normative behavior, models of social control, and quantity of normative variation. The text then elaborates on social control of the self and elementary forms of conflict management. The manuscript takes a look at the theory of third party and on taking sides, including legal, latent, and slow partisanship, social gravitation, models of partisanship, settlement roles, partisanship in tribal societies, and typology of third parties. The text then examines the factors involved in making enemies, as well as social repulsion, moral evolution, and third-party and unilateral moralism. The publication is a dependable source of data for sociologists and researchers interested in the social structure of right and wrong.