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Autore: | Hassett-Walker Connie R. <1969-> |
Titolo: | Black middle class delinquents [[electronic resource] /] / Connie R. Hassett-Walker |
Pubblicazione: | El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (245 p.) |
Disciplina: | 364.36086/220973 |
Soggetto topico: | African American juvenile delinquents |
Middle class - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- Theoretical framework -- The Black middle class and crime -- Empirical research on class and crime -- Data and methodology -- Cross-sectional bivariate results -- Cross-sectional multivariate results for Blacks -- Cross-sectional comparative multivariate results -- Longitudinal data and analyses -- In conclusion: acall to fellow criminologists. |
Sommario/riassunto: | Most criminal justice research on African Americans focuses on poor Blacks living in poor Black communities. Hassett-Walker expands this focus to middle class Blacks and empirically tests an assertion from Pattillo-McCoy (1999)'s Black Picket Fences--that little difference in delinquency exists between poor versus middle class Black youth. Variables included class status, parent-child interaction, and neighborhood poverty. Parenting behavior and marital disruption were both predictive of delinquency. Having delinquent peers predicted future arrest, suggesting support for differential associati |
Titolo autorizzato: | Black middle class delinquents |
ISBN: | 1-59332-542-8 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456667403321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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