This book examines young people's involvement in crime
(including crimes of violence, vandalism, shoplifting, burglary and
car crime) as both victims and offenders.
Although adolescence is the time when involvement in crime
peaks, few previous UK-based studies have attempted to provide a
methodical and comprehensive understanding of adolescent offending
on a city-wide basis. This book seeks a better understanding of
adolescent crime by studying the relationship between individual
characteristics (social bonds and morality and self-control) and
lifestyles (as defined by delinquent peers, substance use and
exposure to risky behaviour settings) and their joint influence on
adolescent involvement in crime, against the backdrop of the
juveniles' social context - taking into account family, school and
neighbourhood influences.
The findings of this study suggest the existence of three main
groups of adolescent offenders; propensity induced offenders,
life-style dependent offenders and situationally limited offenders,
groups of offenders having different causal backgrounds to their
crime involvement, and who therefore may warrant different
strategies for effective prevention.
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