RT Article
T1 Delinquency theory and prevention: A radical alternative
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 4
IS 1
SP 1
OP 5
A1 Carter, Timothy J.
LA English
YR 1979
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764205871
AB Twentieth century America has seen several delinquency prevention programs come into vogue and then collapse under the pressure of ever increasing rates of delinquency; pressuring policy makers to continue their search for new and better programs. Yet, new prevention programs are not pulled out of a hat. Because these programs are based on certain assumptions about human behavior they are, for the most part, derived from theories of crime and delinquency causation. Pursuing this relationship between theory and practice, this paper grounds the emergence of delinquency prevention with the development of positivist criminology, identifies the conceptual and practical deficiencies of positivist theories of crime and subsequent prevention strategies and presents the prevention directive of contemporary Marxist “Critical Criminology.”
K1 Capitalist Class
K1 Critical Criminology
K1 Juvenile Delinquency
K1 Juvenile Justice System
K1 Juvenile Justice
DO 10.1007/BF03373780