Changing routine activities and the decline of youth crime: A repeated cross-sectional analysis of self-reported delinquency in Sweden, 1999-2017

This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross-sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey (N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward...

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Main Author: Svensson, Robert (Author)
Contributors: Oberwittler, Dietrich 1963-
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Criminology
Year: 2021, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 351-386
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Keywords:
Adolescents
attitudes toward crime
Crime drop
Routine Activities
Self-reported delinquency
Social bonds

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