Title Alcohol and drugs, delinquency, and crime : looking back to the future / Lyle W. Shannon ; with the assistance of Judith L. McKim, Kathleen R. Anderson, William E. Murph

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke : Macmillan Press Ltd ; New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998

Copies

Location	Call no.	Vol.	Availability
MELB	364.360977596 Sha/Aad		AVAILABLE

Description xviii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm Contents 1. Delinquency and Crime in the United States -- 2. Delinquency and Crime in Racine -- 3. The Ecological Approach to Explaining Delinquency -- 4. The Justice System -- 5. The Prediction Problem -- 6. Career Continuity in Delinquency and Crime and the Prediction Problem -- 7. Narrowing the Focus to Increase Predictive Efficiency -- 8. Thinking About the Drug/Crime Relationship -- 9. The Relationship of Alcohol and Drugs to Delinquency and Crime in Racine -- 10. Alcohol and Drugs and Criminal Career Continuity in the 1955 Cohort -- 11. Summary and Conclusions Summary This is a longitudinal birth cohort study of juvenile delinquency and adult crime among 4079 people living in Wisconsin from age 6 to early adulthood Notes Bibliography: p192-201. _ Includes index Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 192-201) and index Subject Drug abuse and crime -- Wisconsin -- Racine -- Longitudinal studies. Juvenile delinquency -- Wisconsin -- Racine -- Longitudinal studies. Drug abuse and crime -- Wisconsin -- Racine -- Longitudinal studies. Youth -- Alcohol use -- Wisconsin -- Racine -- Longitudinal studies. Youth -- Drug use -- Wisconsin -- Racine -- Longitudinal studies. Author Anderson, Kathleen R. McKim, Judith L. Murph, William E. LC no. 98011064 ISBN 0312214375 (cloth) 0333719123

  Permalink