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...

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Published in:	Comparative Sociology Vol. 12; no. 5; pp. 677 - 705
Main Authors:	Savolainen, Jukka, Hughes, Lorine A., Bjarnason, Thoroddur
Format:	Article
Published:	Brill Academic Publishers 2013
Subjects:	Social classes Social status Crime Poverty research Social stratification Social structure
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