RT Article
T1 The sociological imagination revisited: lessons from America’s safest city
JF Crime, law and social change
VO 67
IS 5
SP 489
OP 497
A1 Cullen, Francis T. 1951-
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1851045899
AB 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.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 495-497
K1 Ethical Climate
K1 General Strain Theory
K1 Justice System
K1 Juvenile Justice
K1 Sociological Imagination
DO 10.1007/s10611-017-9685-3