RT Article
T1 The Role of Radical Economic Restructuring in Truancy from School and Engagement in Crime
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 1
SP 118
OP 140
A1 Farrall, Stephen 1969-
A1 Gray, Emily 1974-
A1 Jones, Phil Mike
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1687581258
AB Of late, criminologists have become acutely aware of the relationship between school outcomes and engagement in crime as an adult. This phenomenon—which has come to be known as the ‘school-to-prison-pipeline'—has been studied in North America and the United Kingdom, and requires longitudinal data sets. Typically, these studies approach the phenomenon from an individualist perspective and examine truancy in terms of the truants' attitudes, academic achievement or their home life. What remains unclear, however, is a consideration of (1) how macro-level social and economic processes may influence the incidence of truancy, and (2) how structural processes fluctuate over time, and in so doing produce variations in truancy rates or the causal processes associated with truancy. Using longitudinal data from two birth cohort studies, we empirically address these blind spots and test the role of social-structural processes in truancy, and how these may change over time.
K1 Truancy
K1 School
K1 Offending
K1 Anomie
K1 Life-course  studies
K1 School-to-prison-pipeline
K1 National Child Development Study
K1 British Cohort Study 1970
DO 10.1093/bjc/azz040