Bill McCarthy

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the role of street youth in street and school criminologies, and their role in street crime amplification, taking to the streets, and leaving the street.

TL;DR: In this paper, a summary of the rational choice approach and its implications for the study of criminal behavior is presented, along with a review of research on offending that uses the Rational Choice approach in conjunction with more sociological orientations.

TL;DR: The authors argue that various aspects of conventional personal capital, such as a heightened desire for wealth, a propensity for risk-taking, a willingness to cooperate and competence, also play important roles in both legal and illicit prosperity.

TL;DR: The authors used data from youths on the street and in school to test an integration of strain and control theories that spans background and situational factors, and found consistent evidence of the effects of adverse situational conditions: hunger causes theft, and problems of unemployment and shelter produce prostitution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors combine insights from Granovetter's research on embeddedness, Coleman's work on social capital and Sutherland's theory of differential association to suggest that embeddedness in networks of deviant associations provides access to tutelage relationships that facilitate the acquisition of criminal skills and attitudes.