Patterns of Juvenile Delinquency

by Howard B. Kaplan

Kaplan has outlined the fundamentals of the study of juvenile delinquency to provide a general model which serves as an introductory framework to the field. He has looked at five significant questions. What factors influence the social defining of certain behaviours as delinquent? What factors motivate youths to behave delinquently? When youths are motivated, what determines whether the delinquent acts will be carried out? What factors determine whether...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803922094
• ISBN13: 9780803922099
• Release Date: December 1984
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.