From Delinquent Behavior to Official Delinquency

Williams, Jay R.; Gold, Martin

doi:10.2307/799615

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“…In one study, respondents overall reported a large number of undetect ed violations (Empy and Erickson, 1965). Short and Nye (1958) and Williams and Gold (1972) have conducted several studies on unobserved delinquency. They have shown that a majority of youth commit at least one delinquent act.…”

Section: Paradigm II Radicalmentioning

confidence: 99%

The attitudes of youth workers on delinquency and delinquency programs

Dominick¹,

Swartz²,

Taylor³

2000

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The attitudes of youth workers on delinquency and delinquency programs

Dominick¹,

Swartz²,

Taylor³

2000

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“…However, whilst this measure is pertinent to the justice system and accurate for dates, it does capture only a small proportion of offenders' criminal activity and moreover, a non-representative proportion of that activity (Williams and Gold, 1972;Jensen and Rojek 1980). Another potential source of data is the self report questionnaire in which the offender reports all involvement irrespective of whether or not this has resulted in a conviction.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Facets of Criminality: A Cross-Modal and Cross-Gender Validation

2004

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In order to establish if criminals carried out distinct sub-sets of criminal activity as opposed to being widely versatile in the type of crime that they committed, 54 female and 49 male offenders completed a self-report questionnaire that asked about their criminality in two modes: Convictions and actual commission. MDS analysis of the resulting data supported the hypothesis that there is a subset of general criminal activities that most offenders have been involved in, but that there is also a tendency for offenders to evince thematic foci to their activities that relate to dishonesty, violence or antisocial crimes. These three core themes are present both in male and female offenders and across data modalities, emerging in the crimes for which the offender has been convicted as well as those to which s/he admits.

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“…One important contingency has been the differential treatment· accord~d youth by law enflorcement· agen cies based on factors such as race, class, sex, age, grooming and demeanor. (Williams and Gold, 1972) Another contingency is the handling of cases of delinquent behavior by private social agencies, schools, churches and other more informal institutions. The results of more informal inter actigns may be left out of police and court statistics because of the pre ..…”

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confidence: 99%