Juvenile Delinquency and Social Class

Kvaraceus, William C.

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“…Of course, some of the studies that exist in the literature do not report complete enough data to permit derivation of contingency tables, and some of the reported data are inappropriate for contingency table analysis. For example, some studies report only the measure of association or a statistical test without raw data (Cohen, 1969;Kvaraceus, 1944;Meade, 1973). Where the reported measure is something besides a gamma and the data are not reconstructable, we were unable to use the material in our scheme.…”

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The Myth of Social Class and Criminality: An Empirical Assessment of the Empirical Evidence

Tittle¹,

Villemez²,

Smith³

1978

American Sociological Review

331

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Thirty-five studies examining the relationship between social class and crimeldelinquency are reduced to comparable statistics using instances where the relationship was studiedfor specific categories of age, sex, race, place of residence, data type, or offense as units of analysis. The findings from 363 instances are summarized and patterns are identified. The overall results show only a slight negative relationship between class and criminality, with self-report studies reflecting lower associations than official statistics studies. Moreover, analysis demonstrates a clear historical decline in magnitude of association to the point where both self-report and official statistics studies done in the current decade find no class variation. This historical trend is shown to be due to changes in the findings from studies using official statistics as indicators of criminality. Alternative interpretations are discussed, but all lead to serious doubts about the adequacy of theories of deviance that contain assumptions of class differences.

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The Myth of Social Class and Criminality: An Empirical Assessment of the Empirical Evidence

Tittle¹,

Villemez²,

Smith³

1978

American Sociological Review

331

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“…This seeming variance between two theories of delinquency may be over-drawn; probably both are correct. Kvaraceus brings the two theories together when he says "it is highly probable that delinquent aggression has its roots in the conflicts and frustrations that take place in the lower-lower, upper-lower, lower-middle and to some extent the upper-middle classes" (16). There are undoubtedly children whose behavior does not appear very serious to themselves or to their families, because they have never known otherwise.…”

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The Socialization of the Delinquent

Harris¹

1948

Child Development

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Social Class, Social Mobility and Delinquent Behavior

Pine

1965

The Personnel and Guidance Journal

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A study was conducted to determine the significance of the relationships between social class, social mobility, and delinquent behavior. Data was collected from a population of 683 pupils attending a 9-12 urban high school.Information regarding delinquency was gathered by using an anonymous 120 item "delinquency inventory." The chi-square technique was employed to analyze the data which showed that, in general, there is no significant relationship between social class status and delinquent behavior. A very strong relationship exists between social mobility status and delinquent behavior. Adolescents moving downwardly in the social structure are more heavily involved in delinquency; adolescents moving upwardly are least involved. The major conclusion is that juvenile delinquency is less a function of the class an individual is in and much more a function of the class to which he aspires or toward which he is moving.OST STUDIES reporting on the relation-

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Juvenile Delinquency and Social Class

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The Myth of Social Class and Criminality: An Empirical Assessment of the Empirical Evidence

The Myth of Social Class and Criminality: An Empirical Assessment of the Empirical Evidence

The Socialization of the Delinquent

Social Class, Social Mobility and Delinquent Behavior

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