Shaw, Clifford; McKay, Henry
Published by University of Chicago Press, Revised Edition 1969
Hardcover in very good condition, dustjacket in good condition. I
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas – long out of print – has been extensively revised and updated. This edition includes rates of delinquents and rates of commitments for the city of Chicago over a period of sixty-five years.
This is a compilation of most of the ecological studies of delinquency that have been made in the United States and an extension of the studies to new areas. It includes more than one hundred thousand cases in twenty-one cities. It demonstrates in a practically incontrovertible manner that delinquency rates vary regularly and consistently in American cities by concentric zones and that the variations in delinquency rates are closely correlated with variations in relief, unemployment, rentals, homeownership, bad housing, infant mortality, tuberculosis, mental disorders, decrease in the population, etc. This close-packed analysis of factual data makes it clear that delinquency rates are a function of, and dynamically related to, community life.
Shaw, Clifford; McKay, Henry
Published by University of Chicago Press, Revised Edition 1969
Hardcover in very good condition, dustjacket in good condition. I
Juvenile Delinquency and Urban Areas – long out of print – has been extensively revised and updated. This edition includes rates of delinquents and rates of commitments for the city of Chicago over a period of sixty-five years.
This is a compilation of most of the ecological studies of delinquency that have been made in the United States and an extension of the studies to new areas. It includes more than one hundred thousand cases in twenty-one cities. It demonstrates in a practically incontrovertible manner that delinquency rates vary regularly and consistently in American cities by concentric zones and that the variations in delinquency rates are closely correlated with variations in relief, unemployment, rentals, homeownership, bad housing, infant mortality, tuberculosis, mental disorders, decrease in the population, etc. This close-packed analysis of factual data makes it clear that delinquency rates are a function of, and dynamically related to, community life.
