Explaining Youth Crime

This book seeks to explain the nature & origins of youth crime & to understood crime in terms of individual, family & peer group difference. The relationship of youth crime to social factors is expanded through looking at prevalence & frequency of crime from the view of police statistics, self-reports & victim surveys. How criminal behaviour develops over life course & biological & individual factors are investigated in the aim to understand more about how & why youth crime occurs. The family situation & peer influence is covered & applied to major theories of youth crime. The book concludes with implications for prevention & treatment.Farrington, David P. is the author of 'Explaining Youth Crime', published 2000 under ISBN 9780471982302 and ISBN 047198230X.