Changing routine activities and the decline of youth crime
A repeated cross‐sectional analysis of self‐reported delinquency in Sweden, 1999–2017
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9681409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Svensson (0000-0002-6080-2780, Malmö University, corresponding author), Dietrich Oberwittler (0000-0003-2235-3483, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 351-386 |
| Publication date | 2021-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1745-9125.12273 |
| OpenAlex | W3166428556 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 28 |
| References cited | 120 |
This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross‐sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey ( N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward crime, routine activities, and binge drinking were related to the noticeable decline in youth crime. Multilevel modeling was employed for the analysis of temporal trends. We found strong empirical support for our hypotheses, that is, that changes in social bonds, attitudes toward crime, and routine activities were all associated with the decline in youth crime. Routine activities had the strongest explanatory power, and all predictors combined accounted for most of the variance attributed to the decline in youth crime. This study moves research on the crime drop closer to the analysis of social mechanisms by demonstrating that micro‐level associations between theoretically relevant, proximal variables, and delinquency account for macro‐level change
Criminology · Economics · Explanatory power · Juvenile delinquency · Multilevel model · Sociology · Variance (accounting · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance · Demography · Psychology · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes
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| Citation types | Neutral: 28 |