Bibliograph

Delinquent networks, youth co-offending in Stockholm, Jerzy Sarnecki

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Delinquent networks, youth co-offending in Stockholm, Jerzy Sarnecki

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Delinquent networks

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Jerzy Sarnecki

Series statement

Cambridge studies in criminology

Sub title

youth co-offending in Stockholm

Summary

This book presents a study of co-offering relations among youths under twenty-one suspected of criminal offences in Stockholm during 1991–5. In total, the study includes just over 22,000 individuals suspected of around 29,000 offences. Jerzy Sarnecki employs the methods of network analysis which makes it possible to study the ties, social bonds, interactions, differential associations and connections that are central to many of the sociologically oriented theories on the aetiology of crime. Up to now, network analysis has been used only rarely in the criminological context. The book discusses many aspects of Stockholm's delinquent networks such as the existence of delinquent gangs and a criminal underworld, the durability of delinquent relations, and the choice of co-offenders with respect to sex, age, residential location, ethnic background and earlier delinquent experience. It also considers the effects of societal intervention on criminal networks. This unique study will appeal to a wide audience

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