Joy-Riding among British Youth
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13650271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Derek Anthony Scott (0000-0002-2029-6174, corresponding author), DEREK SCOTT (Sowerby Unit for Primary Care Informatics, Medical School, University of Newcastle), Kathleen Paxton (Department of Psychology, Strathclyde University, Glasgow) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 297-298 |
| Publication date | 1997-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Psychological Reports (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0033-2941 • E-ISSN: 1558-691X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2466/pr0.1997.81.1.297 |
| PMID | 9312775 |
| OpenAlex | W2066047470 |
| Language | EN |
The behavioural and legal aspects of the problematic and repetitive criminal behaviour of aggravated vehicle taking or "joyriding" are reviewed as context for a study in Great Britain of data from 20 males imprisoned for joy-riding and/or vehicle theft for gain, 10 habitual joyriders who were members of a youth club established to counter the problem, 10 imprisoned house-breakers, and 10 males with no criminal convictions. No specific ethnographic, motivational, or personality differences between joy-riders and those involved in other crimes of theft were found, although there was evidence for the notion of joyriding developing into car theft for pure financial gain
Club · Context (archaeology · Criminology · Ethnography · Personality · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · History · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |