Overview

Now updated and expanded, this concise survey presents an integrated and comparative evaluation of both individualistic and sociological theories and illuminates the connections, basic assumptions, and concepts associated with major theories of delinquency. In addition to updated discussionsof biological and biosocial, psychological, differential association, social disorganization, lower-class-based, anomie, control, radical, and labeling theories, the second edition offers an evaluation of past and present attempts to explain middle-class delinquency and a new discussion of femaledelinquency that includes power-control theory. Also new is an expanded discussion of theoretical integration that incorporates a full spectrum of delinquency theory.
ISBN-13

9780763608064

ISBN-10

0763608068

Weight

0.16 Pounds

Dimensions

8.00 x 0.25 x 8.25 In

List Price

$3.29

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

24 pages

Publisher

Candlewick

Published On

1999-08-04


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