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Author Godfrey, Barry S

Title Criminal lives : family life, employment, and offending / Barry S. Godfrey, David J. Cox and Stephen D. Farrall
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 213 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Clarendon studies in criminology
Clarendon studies in criminology.
Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. The social history of Crewe -- 3. Persistent criminality in Crewe 1880-1940 -- 4. Informal social control and 'reform' : marriage, employment and desistance from crime -- 5. Families and crime : the intergenerational patterns of offending in Crewe -- 6. Victimization and offending -- 7. Conclusions -- App. A. Our data sets : origins and architecture -- App. B. The mechanics and validity of the censuses, 1841-1901 -- App. C. Nested data and appropriate statistical techniques / Jonathan Jackson and Stephen Farrall
Summary This text examines the history of crime and uses historical data to analyse modern criminological debates. Drawing on criminology, history, and social policy, the book addresses important issues about offenders' persistence in crime, and questions the current theoretical framework used to explain offending patterns
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-208) and index
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Subject Criminals -- Family relationships -- England, North West -- History -- 19th century
Criminals -- Family relationships -- England, North West -- History -- 20th century
Criminals -- Employment -- England, North West -- History -- 19th century
Criminals -- Employment -- England, North West -- History -- 20th century
Crime -- England, North West -- History -- 19th century
Crime -- England, North West -- History -- 20th century
Crime.
Criminals -- Employment.
Criminals -- Family relationships.
England -- England, North West.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Cox, David J
Farrall, Stephen
ISBN 9780191696046
0191696048