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Breaking Rules : The Social and Situational Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2012Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (512 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191634109
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 364.25091732
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Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part 1 Analysing Crime as Situational Action: Theory, Methods, Key Constructs, and Basic Findings -- 1. Situational Action Theory -- 1.1 Criminology: A fragmented and poorly integrated discipline -- 1.2 Key common shortcomings in criminological theory -- 1.3 Situational Action Theory: Basic constructs and propositions -- 1.4 Situational Action Theory: The causes of the causes -- 1.5 Explaining urban crime patterns -- 2. The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study -- 2.1 The research design -- 2.2 The cohort study -- 2.3 Parents' interviews -- 2.4 Young people's interviews -- 2.5 Space-time budget -- 2.6 Criminal justice records data -- 2.7 Data quality -- 2.8 Small area community survey (PCS) -- 2.9 Summary and conclusion -- 3. Young People's Crime, Crime Propensity, and Criminogenic Exposure: Key Constructs and Basic Findings -- 3.1 Crime -- 3.2 Crime propensity -- 3.3 Criminogenic exposure -- 3.4 Predicting crime involvement: The interaction between crime propensity and criminogenic exposure -- 3.5 Summary and conclusion -- Part 2 The Social Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime -- 4. Peterborough, Its Urban Structure, and Crime -- 4.1 Peterborough: The research site -- 4.2 Land use -- 4.3 Residential segregation -- 4.4 Area patterns of crime and disorder -- 4.5 Modelling population structure, collective efficacy, land use, and crime events -- 4.6 Summary and conclusion -- 5. Young Offenders and Their Crimes in the Urban Environment -- 5.1 Area patterns of young people's crime -- 5.2 Modelling the distribution of young people's crime -- 5.3 Offender home locations -- 5.4 Modelling the distribution of young offenders -- 5.5 Crime and distance -- 5.6 Summary and conclusion -- 6. Young People, Their Activities, and Criminogenic Exposure.
6.1 Young people's activity patterns -- 6.2 Settings and circumstances of criminogenic exposure -- 6.3 Social sources of young people's criminogenic exposure -- 6.4 Differential effects of criminogenic exposure by young people's crime propensity -- 6.5 Explaining the variation in area concentrations of young people's crime -- 6.6 Summary and conclusion -- Part 3 The Situational Dynamics of Young People's Crime -- 7. The Crime Convergence: Kinds of People in Kinds of Settings -- 7.1 Studying the intersection of people and settings -- 7.2 Distribution of space-time budget crimes -- 7.3 Exposure to criminogenic settings and crime involvement by crime propensity -- 7.4 Summary and conclusions -- 8. Choosing Crime as an Alternative: Crime Propensity, The Perception - Choice Process, and Crime -- 8.1 Capturing the perception - choice process: A factorial survey approach -- 8.2 PADS+ randomized scenarios -- 8.3 Scenario findings -- 8.4 Hypothetical scenarios and the real world -- 8.5 Summary and conclusion -- Part 4 The Dynamics of Rule-Breaking: Key Findings -- 9. It's All About Interactions -- 9.1 Breaking rules -- 9.2 It's all about interactions -- Appendices -- A1 Technical Appendix -- A1.1 Calculating distance -- A1.2 Presentation of spatial data -- A1.3 Controlling for resident young people -- A1.4 Quantifying time use -- A2 Space-Time Budget Coding Appendix -- A2.1 Activity -- A2.2 Place -- A2.3 With whom -- A2.4 Extra incidents -- References -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
Summary: This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Part 1 Analysing Crime as Situational Action: Theory, Methods, Key Constructs, and Basic Findings -- 1. Situational Action Theory -- 1.1 Criminology: A fragmented and poorly integrated discipline -- 1.2 Key common shortcomings in criminological theory -- 1.3 Situational Action Theory: Basic constructs and propositions -- 1.4 Situational Action Theory: The causes of the causes -- 1.5 Explaining urban crime patterns -- 2. The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study -- 2.1 The research design -- 2.2 The cohort study -- 2.3 Parents' interviews -- 2.4 Young people's interviews -- 2.5 Space-time budget -- 2.6 Criminal justice records data -- 2.7 Data quality -- 2.8 Small area community survey (PCS) -- 2.9 Summary and conclusion -- 3. Young People's Crime, Crime Propensity, and Criminogenic Exposure: Key Constructs and Basic Findings -- 3.1 Crime -- 3.2 Crime propensity -- 3.3 Criminogenic exposure -- 3.4 Predicting crime involvement: The interaction between crime propensity and criminogenic exposure -- 3.5 Summary and conclusion -- Part 2 The Social Dynamics of Young People's Urban Crime -- 4. Peterborough, Its Urban Structure, and Crime -- 4.1 Peterborough: The research site -- 4.2 Land use -- 4.3 Residential segregation -- 4.4 Area patterns of crime and disorder -- 4.5 Modelling population structure, collective efficacy, land use, and crime events -- 4.6 Summary and conclusion -- 5. Young Offenders and Their Crimes in the Urban Environment -- 5.1 Area patterns of young people's crime -- 5.2 Modelling the distribution of young people's crime -- 5.3 Offender home locations -- 5.4 Modelling the distribution of young offenders -- 5.5 Crime and distance -- 5.6 Summary and conclusion -- 6. Young People, Their Activities, and Criminogenic Exposure.

6.1 Young people's activity patterns -- 6.2 Settings and circumstances of criminogenic exposure -- 6.3 Social sources of young people's criminogenic exposure -- 6.4 Differential effects of criminogenic exposure by young people's crime propensity -- 6.5 Explaining the variation in area concentrations of young people's crime -- 6.6 Summary and conclusion -- Part 3 The Situational Dynamics of Young People's Crime -- 7. The Crime Convergence: Kinds of People in Kinds of Settings -- 7.1 Studying the intersection of people and settings -- 7.2 Distribution of space-time budget crimes -- 7.3 Exposure to criminogenic settings and crime involvement by crime propensity -- 7.4 Summary and conclusions -- 8. Choosing Crime as an Alternative: Crime Propensity, The Perception - Choice Process, and Crime -- 8.1 Capturing the perception - choice process: A factorial survey approach -- 8.2 PADS+ randomized scenarios -- 8.3 Scenario findings -- 8.4 Hypothetical scenarios and the real world -- 8.5 Summary and conclusion -- Part 4 The Dynamics of Rule-Breaking: Key Findings -- 9. It's All About Interactions -- 9.1 Breaking rules -- 9.2 It's all about interactions -- Appendices -- A1 Technical Appendix -- A1.1 Calculating distance -- A1.2 Presentation of spatial data -- A1.3 Controlling for resident young people -- A1.4 Quantifying time use -- A2 Space-Time Budget Coding Appendix -- A2.1 Activity -- A2.2 Place -- A2.3 With whom -- A2.4 Extra incidents -- References -- Index -- A -- C -- D -- E -- F -- H -- I -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.

This book examines the findings, theoretical basis, and new methodology of The Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+). This major longitudinal study investigates the role of the social environment on crime causation, involving a cohort of 700 young people from the age of 12.

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