Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency articles from August 1998

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency archives from August 1998

Explaining the gender gap in delinquency: peer influence and moral evaluations of behavior.
August 1, 1998... Gender is one of the strongest and most frequently documented correlates of delinquent behavior. Males commit more offenses than females at every age, within all racial or ethnic groups examined to date, and for all but a handful of offense...

Alternative placements for juvenile offenders: results from the evaluation of the Nokomis challenge program.
August 1, 1998... JUVENILE JUSTICE REFORM A cornerstone of the juvenile justice system is the concept of rehabilitation. Up until the early 1970s, this meant placing juvenile delinquents in small community group homes or large congregate training...

Social structure, interaction opportunities, and the direction of violent offenses.
August 1, 1998... INTRODUCTION It is often argued (for example, Maxfield 1987:277; Messner and Tardiff 1985:244) that there are no substantive differences between the routine activity approach (formulated by Cohen and Felson 1979) and the...

The influence of crack cocaine on robbery, burglary, and homicide rates: a cross-city, longitudinal analysis.
August 1, 1998... An abundance of anecdotal evidence links crack cocaine to an upsurge in violent crime during the 1980s (e.g., Anderson 1990; "The Bloodiest Year Yet?" 1990; "Cops under Fire" 1990; Hinds 1990; Treaster 1992). Crack first appeared in the...

A reexamination of the crime-fear linkage.
August 1, 1998... The study of fear of crime is marked by several important debates or lines of inquiry. An important one of these debates focuses on the relationship between crime and fear. While it is often assumed that crime and fear of crime are linked,...