Cross-National Variation in Socioeconomic Status and Delinquency: A Comparative Study of Adolescents from 26 European Countries.
This research examined cross-national differences in the association between social class and delinquency. The poverty hypothesis expects socioeconomic disadvantage to exert a causal influence on delinquent behavior. This expectation implies that the individual-level association between family SES a...
| Publicado en: | Comparative Sociology Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 677 - 705 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2013
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