Barry S Godfrey, Stephen Farrall, David J Cox

Criminal Lives

Family Life, Employment, and Offending

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the histories of crime, and uses historical data to analyse modern criminological debates. Drawing on criminology, history, and social policy this book addresses a number of important issues about offenders' persistence in crime, and questions the current theoretical framework used to explain offending patterns.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 445g
• ISBN-13: 9780199217205
• ISBN-10: 0199217203
• Artikelnr.: 22825665

Autorenporträt

Barry Godfrey is Reader in Criminology, and Director of the Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University Stephen Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University Dr. David Cox is a Fellow at the University of Keele

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: The Social History of Crewe
* 3: Persistent Criminality in Crewe 1880-1940
* 4: Informal Social Control and 'Reform': Marriage, Employment, and
Desistance from Crime
* 5: Families and Crime: Intergenerational Pattern of Offending in
Crewe
* 6: Victimization and Offending
* 7: Conclusions
* Appendix A: Our Data Sets and Architecture
* Appendix B: The Mechanics and Validity of the Censuses, 1841-1901
* Appendix C: Nested Data and Appropriate Statistical Techniques-
Analysis of the Crewe Data Results