Criminal Lives: Family Life, Employment, and Offending by Barry S. Godfrey (Engl

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This book examines the histories of crime, and uses historical data to analyse modern criminological debates. Drawing on criminology, history, and social policy this book addresses a number of important issues about offenders' persistence in crime, and questions the current theoretical framework used to explain offending patterns.

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This book uses historical data to directly address modern criminological debates. There is currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and connections between historians and criminologists are becoming much more frequent. However, published work which uses historical data to this extent is rare. This book's aim is to draw a wide audience from the worlds of criminology, history, and social policy and engage in a genuinelyinterdisciplinary debate. This book addresses a number of important questions about offenders' persistence in, or desistance from, crime and questions the current theoreticalframeworks that are given to explain why some people stop, or slow down, their offending, and why offenders' children become involved in crime. By using criminal registers, census material, and newspaper reports from 1880 -1940 for one industrial town in North-West England, this book asks how and why did some people stop offending, and what part did employment, relationship formation, and family responsibility play in that process; was criminality passed on from parent to child, and if so, how;and to what extent were persistent offenders also persistent victims?

Author Biography

Barry Godfrey is Reader in Criminology, and Director of the Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University Stephen Farrell is a Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University Dr. David Cox is a Fellow at the University of Keele

Table of Contents

1: Introduction2: The Social History of Crewe3: Persistent Criminality in Crewe 1880-19404: Informal Social Control and 'Reform': Marriage, Employment, and Desistance from Crime5: Families and Crime: Intergenerational Pattern of Offending in Crewe6: Victimization and Offending7: ConclusionsAppendix A: Our Data Sets and ArchitectureAppendix B: The Mechanics and Validity of the Censuses, 1841-1901Appendix C: Nested Data and Appropriate Statistical Techniques- Analysis of the Crewe Data Results

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This book addresses a number of important questions about offenders' persistence in, or distance from crime and questions the current theoretical frameworks that are given to explain why some people stop, or slow down, their offending.

Long Description

This book uses historical data to directly address modern criminological debates. There is currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and connections between historians and criminologists are becoming much more frequent. However, published work which uses historical data to this extent is rare. This book's aim is to draw a wide audience from the worlds of criminology, history, and social policy and engage in a genuinelyinterdisciplinary debate. This book addresses a number of important questions about offenders' persistence in, or desistance from, crime and questions the current theoretical frameworks that are given to explain why some people stop, or slow down, their offending, and whyoffenders' children become involved in crime. By using criminal registers, census material, and newspaper reports from 1880 -1940 for one industrial town in North-West England, this book asks how and why did some people stop offending, and what part did employment, relationship formation, and family responsibility play in that process; was criminality passed on from parent to child, and if so, how; and to what extent were persistent offenders also persistent victims?

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Combines developing theoretical perspectives from criminal history, social policy, and criminologyUses qualitative and quantitative data to address criminological issues

Details ISBN0199217203 Author David J. Cox Short Title CRIMINAL LIVES Language English ISBN-10 0199217203 ISBN-13 9780199217205 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2007 Series Clarendon Studies in Criminology Imprint Oxford University Press Subtitle Family Life, Employment, and Offending Place of Publication Oxford Country of Publication United Kingdom DOI 10.1604/9780199217205 UK Release Date 2007-04-12 AU Release Date 2007-04-12 NZ Release Date 2007-04-12 Birth 1939 Affiliation Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University Position Claire Tow Professor of Religion Qualifications MD, FACP Pages 234 Publisher Oxford University Press Publication Date 2007-04-12 DEWEY 364.2509427 Illustrations numerous tables and figures Audience Further / Higher Education We've got this

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