Anthropological Theories of Crime and Delinquency

Bibliographic Data

ID2168356
AuthorsPhyllis Jeroslow (University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume21
Issue3
Pages255-269
Publication date2011-04-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1091-1359 • E-ISSN: 1540-3556
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10911359.2011.564554
OpenAlexW2001297729
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited21

Anthropological perspectives on crime and delinquency reflect historical contexts and the increasing complexity of societies over time. For most of anthropology's history, field researchers studied small societies in an attempt to decipher the rules that governed behavior. By the middle of the twentieth century, anthropologists turned to class and power differentials related to resource access to explain crime and delinquency in social groups that were part of larger societies. Economic and political motives for defining criminality have since become central to the ethnographies of contemporary anthropologists. Twenty-first-century anthropological studies encompass both local and global contexts, and continue to draw upon the cornerstone concepts and ethnographic methods of their predecessors

Criminology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Juvenile delinquency · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Law

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