The publication of Travis Hirschi's Causes of Delinquency in 1969 was a watershed moment
in criminology. There are many reasons for the work's lasting influence. Hirschi carefully …

Travis Hirschi's social bonding theory has mostly been tested in the West. In this study, the
theory is tested on juvenile delinquency in a developing country, Turkey. Data were …

Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) are used to examine the
influence of employment characteristics and other age-appropriate investments on young …

What explains the onset of criminal behavior? Why do some offenders continue offending
across different phases of the life course? These are fascinating and important questions in …

Studies imply that family and school resources independently affect delinquency. Yet
research has not developed a conceptual or analytic framework for exploring how these …

Crime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. While the decline has been well-
documented, few scholars have analyzed which groups have most benefited from the crime …

Wilson's deindustrialization thesis has been the focus of much recent research. This study is
the first to empirically test his thesis as it relates to suicide among young black males, which …

Are the unemployed more likely to commit crimes? Does having a job make one less likely
to commit a crime? Criminologists have found that individuals who are marginalized from the …

Purpose While the sizable body of research focusses on various psychological effects of
enterprise social media (ESM), research connecting the link between ESM and …

We investigate how lone mothers' heterogeneity in partnership trajectories is associated with
children's well-being. We use data from the Millennium Cohort Study, which follows a large …