RT Article
T1 Patterns of criminality and alcohol abuse: results of the Tuebingen Criminal Behaviour Development Study
JF Criminal behaviour and mental health
VO 7
IS 4
SP 401
OP 420
A2 Kerner, Hans-Jürgen 1943-
A2 Weitekamp, Elmar G. M.
A2 Stelly, Wolfgang 1967-
A2 Thomas, Jürgen 1963-
LA Undetermined
YR 1997
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1640111913
AB This paper examines, first, the official German criminal police statistics in order to elucidate the role of alcohol with regard to the commitment of crimes and, second, the relationship of alcohol abuse and chronic offenders in a life course perspective. The results, based on the Tuebingen Criminal Behaviour Development Study TCBDS, show that the more a person is involved in crime the more he is drinking. But neither early experiences of socialisation nor imprisonment experiences are sufficient causal conditions for a heavy alcohol consumption in later life. The analyses indicate that alcohol abuse is an expression of the typical behavioural patterns and daily routine of criminals. Delinquency, alcohol consumption and a deviant lifestyle seem to interact and to enhance each other in the sense of an increasing spiral which leads to a decrease in opportunities for developing and maintaining a normal, socially integrated biography. Nevertheless heavy drinking in the past does not prohibit processes of desistance but desistance from crime goes hand in hand with desistance from heavy drinking. Copyright Ř 1997 Whurr Publishers Ltd
K1 Alkohol
K1 Langzeitforschung
K1 Kriminelle Karriere
K1 Abweichendes Verhalten
K1 Bagatelldelinquenz
K1 Sozialisation
K1 Typen
K1 Rückfall
K1 Soziale Kontrolle
K1 Lebensstil
K1 Abbruch
K1 Biographieforschung
K1 Lebenslauf
K1 Familie
K1 Jugendkriminalität
DO 10.1002/cbm.197