| Description |
1 online resource (310 pages) |
| Contents |
Chapter One. Introduction to the study ; Purpose of the study ; Justification for the study ; Cost and consequences of early school leaving ; Deviance and the early school leaver ; Significance of the study ; Introduction to the participants ; Research questions ; Organization of the book -- Chapter Two. Review of the literature on early school leaving ; Family background and demographic characteristics ; Personal characteristics ; School-related characteristics ; Summary -- Chapter Three. Research methods and profiles of the participants ; Research design ; Data gathering ; Data analysis ; Data trustworthiness ; Ethical procedures ; Delimitations and limitation of the study ; Profiles of participants ; Summary -- Chapter Four. A life history perspective ; The participants stories ; Summary -- Chapter Five. Analysis and discussion of life-history perspective ; Environmental stability: transition and mobility ; History of child abuse ; Family influences ; Neighborhood and community ; Individual characteristics ; Companions ; Summary -- Chapter Six. An educational perspective ; The participants stories ; Summary -- Chapter Seven. Analysis and discussion of educational perspective ; School climate: students-staff rapport ; Attitudinal factors toward high school environment ; Number of schools attended and suspensions ; Cognitive ability ; School behavioral problems ; Employment, finances, school credits, and future plans ; Summary -- Chapter Eight. Overview, conclusion, and recommendations ; Overview of the study ; Conceptual framework of the factors affecting early school leaving ; Conclusions ; Recommendations ; Appendix A ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Summary |
Smale and Gounko study twelve men who dropped out of school early, and wound up in juvenile delinquency. While many studies have suggested a link between early school leaving and delinquency nobody has done a study from the perspective of the criminals using dissimilar populations. The directional causality between criminal behavior and dropping out of school has yet to be established, and this study brings researchers one step closer to fully understanding which one happens first |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
|
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education and crime -- Case studies
|
|
High school dropouts -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Case studies
|
|
Juvenile delinquency -- Canada -- Case studies
|
|
Criminals -- Canada -- Case studies
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
|
|
Criminals
|
|
Education and crime
|
|
Juvenile delinquency
|
|
Social Welfare & Social Work.
|
|
Social Sciences.
|
|
Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency.
|
|
Canada
|
| Genre/Form |
Case studies
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Gounko, Tatiana.
|
| ISBN |
9780773411722 |
|
0773411720 |
|
