TURNING TO CRIME
UPBRINGING
LO: How might someone's upbringing cause them to turn to crime?
Disrupted families
-Farrington et al.
-> Cambridge study in delinquent development.
Aims:
-Document the start, duration and end of offending behaviour, from childhood to adulthood in families.
-To investigate influence of life events.
-> Risk & protective factors
-> Intergenerational transmission of offending and antisocial behaviour.
-> Influence of family background.
--> Longitudinal study with many male participants.
- Latest data gathered from interviews and criminal records at age 48.
--> Range of risk factors found including family and poverty.
Learning from others
-Sutherland
- Theory of differential association (the way people react with different people).
- Intended as a comprehensive explanation of criminal and some non-criminal behaviour.
- 9 principles that may make someeone more likely to turn to crime.
Poverty and disadvantaged neighbourhoods
-Wikstrom
- The Peterborough youth study
--> According to government figures:
-The most disadvantaged 5% are 100x more likely to have multiple problems than the most advantaged 50%
*Conduct disorders
*Police contact
*Cannabis use
*Mood disorders
*Alcohol abuse
-Cross-sectional
-Very large sample
- Interviews identified a number of risk factors of living in poverty that may cause someone to turn to crime, including:
*Family social position (class)
* Social situation (e.g. truancy)
*Lifestyle
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