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Crime in the Making: Pathways and Turning Points Through Life.
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This article is published in Social Forces.The article was published on 1994-01-01. It has received 3835 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social control theory.read more
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School attachment and official delinquency status in the People's Republic of China
Lening Zhang,Steven F. Messner +1 more
TL;DR: The authors examined the effect of school attachment on the likelihood of being an officially sanctioned delinquent using data for a sample of youths in Tianjin, China, and found that school attachment and school quality are inversely related to an indicator of official delinquency status.
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Crime, Delinquency, and Social Status: A Reconsideration
Lee Ellis,James N. McDonald +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of 273 studies of the relationship between social status and criminal/delinquent behavior is presented, concluding that individual social status is much more closely associated with criminal behavior than is parental social status, particularly when offending behavior is persistent.
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Qualitative Research and Intersectionality
TL;DR: In this article, the appropriateness of certain methodological frameworks and the thematic contributions of qualitative research to intersectionality are discussed, and it is well-documented that purely quantitative methodologies are not well suited to studying intersecionality.
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Digital degradation: Stigma management in the internet age:
Sarah Lageson,Shadd Maruna +1 more
TL;DR: The concept of stigma and labeling has been central to the sociology of punishment since at least the writings of Durkheim and Mead as discussed by the authors, and it has been used in a variety of contexts.
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“Recovery Came First”: Desistance versus Recovery in the Criminal Careers of Drug-Using Offenders
TL;DR: The results indicate that desistance is subordinate to recovery because of the fact that drug-using offenders especially see themselves as drug users and not as “criminals.”