Patterns of delinquent behavior.

Causes of Delinquency

In Causes of Delinquency, Hirschi attempts to state and test a theory of delinquency, seeing in the delinquent a person relatively free of the intimate attachments, the aspirati...

Self-reported delinquency: Results from an instrument for New Zealand

Advancing Knowledge about the Onset of Delinquency and Crime

Crime and Deviance in the Life Course

Criminological research has emphasized the strong relationship between age and crime, with involvement in most crimes peaking in adolescence and then declining. However, there i...

Sex and Involvement in Deviance/Crime: A Quantitative Review of the Empirical Literature

Forty-four studies reporting data on the relationship between sex and indicators of deviance/criminality are reduced to a single data base. Contingency tables (1,118) are genera...