Social norms, as a topic of inquiry, has garnered a lot of attention from a variety of
perspectives in recent years. Because of the rapidly-growing interest in social norms from …

Purpose Inmate rule violations or “misconducts” reflect offending within a prison, and this
study involved a systematic review of studies of the causes/correlates of inmate misconduct …

Why do certain people commit acts of crime? Why does crime happen in certain places?
Presenting an ambitious new study designed to test a pioneering new theory of the causes …

An examination of the influence of street stops on the legal socialization of young men
showed an association between the number of police stops they see or experience and a …

Bullying among schoolchildren is certainly a very old phenomenon. The fact that some
children are frequently and systematically harassed and attacked by other children has been …

In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing
in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirations, and the …

Shaw and McKay's influential theory of community social disorganization has never been
directly tested. To address this, a community-level theory that builds on Shaw and McKay's …

Research on dropping out of school has focused on characteristics of the individual or
institution that correlate with the dropout decision. Many of these characteristics are …

The social learning theory of crime integrates Edwin H. Sutherland's diff erential association
theory with behavioral learning theory. It is a widely accepted and applied approaches to …

Age is one of the most robust correlates of criminal behavior. Yet, explanations for this
relationship are varied and conflicting. Developmental theories point to a multitude of …