Anomie reconsidered: exaggerated aspirations, risk-taking and criminal achievement

Assessing offenders’ decision-making and stubborn persistence in crime has been an important challenge for criminologists. In this study, we focus on a key dimension of micro-anomie: exaggerated aspirations. An inmate survey in Quebec’s penitentiaries provided key information on inmates’ earnings du...

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Main Author: Tremblay, Pierre 1951- (Author)
Contributors: Morselli, Carlo ; Charest, Mathieu
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
Year: 2022, Volume: 64, Issue: 2, Pages: 7-34
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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