Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Overview -- CHAPTER ONE The ESIOM paradigm and its problems -- The ESIOM paradigm -- Early challenges to the ESIOM paradigm -- The emergence of more serious anomalies -- Grappling with the anomalies -- The theory integration response -- Abandoning the ESIOM paradigm -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER TWO The insidious effects of economic and social stress on parenting -- Aggregate-level studies of the effect of economic stress on child maltreatment -- The surveillance hypothesis -- The nature of the economic stress: parenting relationship -- The role of social stressors in child maltreatment -- The role of social supports in child maltreatment -- The interaction between economic and social stress -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER THREE Parenting, peers and delinquency -- The control theory position -- Parental controls and delinquency -- Control theory and the role of economic stress -- Control theory and the role of delinquent peers -- The role of delinquent parents and siblings -- Integrated control theories -- The salience of contact with offenders as a mediating variable -- Parental controls, delinquent peers and neighbourhood effects on crime -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER FOUR Delinquency generation at the individual level -- The general approach -- Data and methods of analysis -- The effect of social and economic stress on participation in crime -- The effect of social and economic stress on parenting -- The effect of parenting on delinquency -- The relationship between parenting, neighbourhoods and delinquency -- The interrelationship between social and economic stress, parenting and delinquency -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER FIVE Delinquency generation at the aggregate level.

Correlations -- The effect of social and economic stress on participation in crime -- The effect of social and economic stress on parenting -- The effect of parenting on delinquency -- The interrelationship between social and economic stress, parenting, neighbourhood delinquency and delinquency -- The effects of parenting and social and economic stress on participation in property and violent crime -- The relative importance of neglect and abuse -- Path analysis -- Adult participation in crime and aggregate crime rates -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER SIX An epidemic model of offender population growth -- An outline of the model -- The relevance of criminal career theory -- The epidemiology of offender population growth -- Stable condition values in the epidemic model of delinquency -- `Tipping points' and the offender population growth threshold -- Criminal participation rates and aggregate crime rates -- Short- and long-run effects of economic stress on aggregate crime rates -- Dealing with the anomalies -- Testing the epidemic model -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN Theories of crime and place -- Alternative conceptions of crime and place -- Social disorganisation theory and the persistence of crime-prone places -- The relationship between the epidemic model and social disorganisation theory -- Early criticisms of social disorganisation theory -- Later research on informal social controls -- `Broken windows', fear of crime and crime-prone places -- The role of public housing -- Criminal opportunity theory and aggregate crime rate variation -- Integrating offender supply and criminal opportunity theories -- Summary and conclusion -- CHAPTER EIGHT Prevention -- Preliminary issues -- The general role of Government in reducing economic stress -- The role of childcare -- The importance of an effective child maintenance scheme.

The role of labour market programs -- Approaches to neighbourhood poverty -- Social capital and the role of Government in reducing social stress -- Social capital theory -- Developmental intervention programs -- Summary and conclusion -- Notes -- 1 THE ESIOM PARADIGM AND ITS PROBLEMS -- 3 PARENTING, PEERS AND DELINQUENCY -- 4 DELINQUENCY GENERATION AT THE INDIVIDUAL LEVEL -- 5 DELINQUENCY GENERATION AT THE AGGREGATE LEVEL -- 6 AN EPIDEMIC MODEL OF OFFENDER POPULATION GROWTH -- 7 THEORIES OF CRIME AND PLACE -- 8 PREVENTION -- References -- Index.

This book puts forward a model of delinquent-prone communities showing that disadvantage causes crime through disruption of the parenting process.

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