The sociological imagination revisited: lessons from America’s safest city

In America’s Safest City, Simon Singer embraces the sociological imagination to situate juveniles’ personal troubles within the context of middle-class affluence and modernity. In so doing, he departs from the standard research paradigm that seeks to explain delinquency by using secondary data sets...

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Main Author: Cullen, Francis T. 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2017, Volume: 67, Issue: 5, Pages: 489-497
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Ethical Climate
General Strain Theory
Justice System
Juvenile Justice
Sociological Imagination
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Summary:In America’s Safest City, Simon Singer embraces the sociological imagination to situate juveniles’ personal troubles within the context of middle-class affluence and modernity. In so doing, he departs from the standard research paradigm that seeks to explain delinquency by using secondary data sets that contain limited measures of theoretical constructs identified by reigning perspectives. Singer’s decision has resulted in a rich analysis that is replete with criminological lessons about the nature of delinquency. Four such lessons are presented here, which include: (1) a lower-class bias has clouded thinking about crime; (2) the reaction to crime differs across classes; (3) parents matter in producing adolescence-limited antisocial youths; and (4) suburban delinquency may be a precursor to white-collar crime.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 495-497
ISSN:1573-0751
DOI:10.1007/s10611-017-9685-3