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Alcohol and Drugs, Delinquency and Crime

Looking Back to the Future

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. Lyle W. Shannon

    1. The University of Iowa, Iowa, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Delinquency and Crime in the United States

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    Pages 1-21

  3. Delinquency and Crime in Racine

    • Lyle W. Shannon
    Pages 22-38

  4. The Ecological Approach to Explaining Delinquency

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    Pages 39-53

  5. The Justice System

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    Pages 54-70

  6. The Prediction Problem

    • Lyle W. Shannon
    Pages 71-84

  7. Career Continuity in Delinquency and Crime and the Prediction Problem

    • Lyle W. Shannon
    Pages 85-107

  8. Narrowing the Focus to Increase Predictive Efficiency

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    Pages 108-124

  9. Thinking about the Drug/Crime Relationship

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    Pages 125-139

  10. The Relationship of Alcohol and Drugs to Delinquency and Crime in Racine

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    Pages 140-154

  11. Alcohol and Drugs and Criminal Career Continuity in the 1955 Cohort

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    Pages 155-175

  12. Summary and Conclusions

    • Lyle W. Shannon
    Pages 176-191

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 192-204
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About this book

A longitudinal birth cohort study of juvenile delinquency and adult crime among 4079 persons living in Wisconsin from age 6 to early adulthood. Data on police contacts and their dispositions were obtained from the police department and other agencies and other data were obtained by interviewing samples of the 1942 and 1949 cohorts. The 1955 Cohort data were brought up to 1989, recoded, and reanalyzed to determine the importance of alcohol and drug involvement in criminal career continuity.

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  • The University of Iowa, Iowa, USA

    Lyle W. Shannon

About the author

LYLE W. SHANNON is Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Director of the Iowa Urban Community Research Centre at the University of Iowa. His ecological and longitudinal studies of delinquency and crime commenced at the University of Wisconsin in Madison where he was a Professor in the Department of Sociology from 1952 to 1962. His work has appeared in professional journals, monographs, and in edited volumes since the early 1950s. Among his books are Minority Migrants in the Urban Community: Mexican-American and Negro Adjustment in Industrial Society, Criminal Career Continuity: Its Social Context and Changing Patterns of Delinquency and Crime.

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