Social Disadvantage and Crime
A Criminological Puzzle
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3757271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Per‐olof H Wikström (University of Cambridge, corresponding author), Per-Olof H Wikström (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Kyle Treiber (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK), Kyle H Treiber (0000-0002-1769-0576, University of Cambridge) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 60 |
| Issue | 10 |
| Pages | 1232-1259 |
| Publication date | 2016-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Behavioral Scientist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7642 • E-ISSN: 1552-3381 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002764216643134 |
| PMID | 27524829 |
| OpenAlex | W2345238720 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 47 |
In this article, we analyze the relationship between social disadvantage and crime, starting from the paradox that most persistent offenders come from disadvantaged backgrounds, but most people from disadvantaged backgrounds do not become persistent offenders. We argue that despite the fact that social disadvantage has been a key criminological topic for some time, the mechanisms which link it to offending remain poorly specified. Drawing on situational action theory, we suggest social disadvantage is linked to crime because more people from disadvantaged versus affluent backgrounds develop a high crime propensity and are exposed to criminogenic contexts, and the reason for this is that processes of social and self-selection place the former more frequently in (developmental and action) contexts conducive to the development and expression of high crime propensities. This article will explore this hypothesis through a series of analyses using data from the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+), a longitudinal study which uses a range of data collection methods to study the interaction between personal characteristics and social environments. It pays particular attention to the macro-to-micro processes behind the intersection of people with certain characteristics and environments with certain features - i.e., their exposure - which leads to their interaction
Criminology · Disadvantage · Political science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology
Exploring interactions of self‐control, morality and peer delinquency among justice‐involved juveniles
Research on Neighborhoods in European Cities
Understanding the Mechanisms through Which Family Risk Affects Adolescent Mental Health
Adolescent criminality
Explaining cheating in schools with Situational Action Theory
What next for tests of the situational model of Situational Action Theory? Recommendations from a systematic review
Morality, delinquent peer association, and criminogenic exposure
Criminality and socioeconomic disadvantage
Emergence of cyber-spiritualism in Ughelli
Moral Rules, Self-Control, and School Context
The Moderating Influence of Poverty on Criminal Justice Processing
Predicting juvenile delinquency and criminal behavior in adulthood using machine learning
Incarceration, polygenic risk, and depressive symptoms among males in late adulthood
Explaining Criminal Careers As Crime Events
Kriminalität der Armen – Kriminalisierung von Armut
Greenness, Deprivation, and Fatal Police Shootings
“Taking a Walk on the Wild Side”
An Exploratory Study of Crime
From deprivation to criminality
Social inequality and mass imprisonment
Situational Opportunity Theories of Crime
Immigration and the “Welfare Magnet” hypothesis
Gambling behavior and criminal convictions
Pathways to Drug Dealing in the Middle and Upper Classes
Does national moral context make a difference? A comparative test of Situational Action Theory
The Housing Experiences of Syrian Refugee Youth in the United States
Economic governance and homicide
Institutional Effectiveness and Economic Development
To Speed or Not to Speed
The conditional effects of self-control in situational action theory. A preliminary test in a randomized scenario study
An experimental test of Situational Action Theory of crime causation
Criminality in Brazilian Border Municipalities
Social sources of delinquency
Crime and the American dream
Explaining Crime as Moral Actions
Inequality, Crime and Public Policy (Routledge Revivals)
Control Balance
Great American City
Activity Fields and the Dynamics of Crime
Community Level Factors and Child Maltreatment Rates
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas (Phoenix Books)
The Truly Disadvantaged
Individuals, settings, and acts of crime
Urban Crime, Criminals, and Victims
The Sage Handbook of Criminological Research Methods
When Crime Appears
Building on the Foundation of General Strain Theory
Causes of Delinquency
Testing the Core Empirical Implications of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime
Compounded Risk
Inequality, crime, and public policy
Do Disadvantaged Neighborhoods Cause Well‐adjusted Children to Become Adolescent Delinquents? A Study of Male Juvenile Serious Offending, Individual Risk and Protective Factors, and Neighborhood Context
Specifying the Ses/Delinquency Relationship
Reconsidering the Relationship Between Ses and Delinquency
The Myth of Social Class and Crime Revisited
Ecometrics
Economic Deprivation and Early Childhood Development
The Myth of Social Class and Criminality
Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency
The Distribution of Juvenile Delinquency in the Social Class Structure
Beyond Social Capital
Correlates of Delinquency
The Myth of Social Class and Criminality Reconsidered
Assessing 'Neighborhood Effects
Whither the Sociological Study of Crime
Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,56 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 32 |