Delinquency and its outcome in court and college.

Porterfield, Austin L.

doi:10.1111/j.1939-0025.1944.tb04888.x

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“…Recognizing the shortcomings of official data, some scholars (Porterfield 1943, Porterfield 1946, Wallerstein and Wyle 1947, Biderman and Reiss 1967 began to publish studies based on surveys of criminals and victims in the mid-1900s. The availability of detailed information in criminal or victim-reported data greatly expanded the range of crime information that can be studied by researchers and enhanced our understanding of the causes and consequences of crime.…”

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Are youth offenders responsive to changing sanctions? Evidence from the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act of 2003

Zhang

2016

Canadian J of Economics

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This paper examines youth offenders’ responses to changing sanctions, using evidence from the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA), which replaced the Young Offenders Act on April 1, 2003. Using police reported and court based official statistics and the difference‐in‐difference strategy, it is found that Canadian youth offenders were less likely to be charged by police and less likely to receive a custodial sentence following the YCJA. These changes were relatively large for less serious crime and small or insignificant for more serious crime. In response to these changes in the certainty of sanctions, less serious youth crime increased while the direction of change for more serious youth crime was less clear. Empirical analysis on youth self‐reported crime corroborates the findings on youth crime reported to police, particularly for boys.

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Are youth offenders responsive to changing sanctions? Evidence from the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act of 2003

Zhang

2016

Canadian J of Economics

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“…First, it seems clear that a considerable volume of delinquent and criminal behavior never even becomes known to social control agencies (compare Porterfield, 1943;Short and Nye, 1958;Akers, 1964;Voss, 1966;Ennis, 1967;Farrington, 1973). Even among those juveniles whose delinquency comes to the attention of the police, relatively few will find themselves referred for further processing (Gibbons and Griswold, 1957;Sheridan, 1962;Goldman, 1969;McEachern and Bauzer, 1964;Piliavin and Briar, 1964;Terry, 1967aTerry, , 1967bWheeler, 1968;Wilson, 1968;Wheeler et al, 1968;Hohenstein, 1969;Ferdinand and Luchterhand, 1970;Ferster et al, 1970;Black and Reiss, 1970;Weiner and Willie, 197 1 ;Arnold, 197 1 ;Ferster and Courtless, 197 1 ;Williams and Gold, 1972;Chused, 1973;Kiekbusch, 1973;Thornberry, 1973).…”

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JUVENILE COURT INTAKE An Analysis of Discretionary Decision‐Making

Thomas¹,

Sieverdes²

1975

Criminology

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An increasing amount of pressure has been directed toward juvenile court operations, much of which has focused on the hypothesized abuse of the broad discretionary decision‐making power that has traditionally been vested in the court. In this paper, we attempt to examine the extent to which factors not directly associated with the nature of the alleged offense may alter the probability that a juvenile w.11 be referred for a formal hearing in the juvenile court, a step which many analysts feel may have the unintended function of promoting rather than inhibiting subsequent involvement in delinquent behavior. Based on an analysis of 346 cases, our findings show that a number of variables that are not of direct legal relevance do exert a significant influence on the dispositional process, but the magnitude of this influence is not as great as many have been led to expect given the orientation of some explanatory models, particularly those based on the propositions of the labeling school.

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“…Similarly, as has been documented, criminology has often been "adolescent limited" [2] in that the concentration of work has examined youth or juvenile delinquency. Cullen was speaking of criminological theorizing from the 1960s on, but it is also the case that earlier criminological thought had a telescopic lens pointed at the juvenile years (see [3][4][5]). …”

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From urban to suburban criminology: Understanding crime in America’s “safe” cities

Rocque

Posick

2017

Crime Law Soc Change

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Simon Singer's [1] America's Safest City represents a new and innovative contribution to the criminological literature. It not only provides a fresh look at understanding crime in America, it sheds the light on a heretofore understudied part of the country, but one that is increasingly populated: Suburbia. Singer offers a new theoretical perspective which he calls "relational modernity." Because the perspective is so new, it is important to critically appraise and evaluate its merits. Thus, this special issue offers an overview and analysis of the book from four luminaries in criminology.

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Delinquency and its outcome in court and college.

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Are youth offenders responsive to changing sanctions? Evidence from the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act of 2003

Are youth offenders responsive to changing sanctions? Evidence from the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act of 2003

JUVENILE COURT INTAKE An Analysis of Discretionary Decision‐Making

From urban to suburban criminology: Understanding crime in America’s “safe” cities

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