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Criminal Lives Family Life, Employment, and Offending

Author: Barry S. Godfrey; Stephen Farrall; David J. Cox
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199217205
Published In: May 2007
Format: Hardback , 240 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Combines developing theoretical perspectives from criminal history, social policy, and criminology
Uses qualitative and quantitative data to address criminological issues

This book uses historical data to directly address modern criminological debates. There is currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and connections between historians and criminologists are becoming much more frequent. However, published work which uses historical data to this extent is rare. This book's aim is to draw a wide audience from the worlds of criminology, history, and social policy and engage in a genuinely interdisciplinary debate.

This book addresses a number of important questions about offenders' persistence in, or desistance from, crime and questions the current theoretical frameworks that are given to explain why some people stop, or slow down, their offending, and why offenders' children become involved in crime. By using criminal registers, census material, and newspaper reports from 1880 -1940 for one industrial town in North-West England, this book asks how and why did some people stop offending, and what part did employment, relationship formation, and family responsibility play in that process; was criminality passed on from parent to child, and if so, how; and to what extent were persistent offenders also persistent victims?

Readership: Academics and advanced students in crime, criminology, sociology, and legal history

1: Introduction
2: The Social History of Crewe
3: Persistent Criminality in Crewe 1880-1940
4: Informal Social Control and 'Reform': Marriage, Employment, and Desistance from Crime
5: Families and Crime: Intergenerational Pattern of Offending in Crewe
6: Victimization and Offending
7: Conclusions
Appendix A: Our Data Sets and Architecture
Appendix B: The Mechanics and Validity of the Censuses, 1841-1901
Appendix C: Nested Data and Appropriate Statistical Techniques- Analysis of the Crewe Data Results

Barry S. Godfrey, Director of the Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University, David J. Cox, Fellow of the University of Keele, and Stephen Farrall, Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Law, Politics and Justice, Keele University