NCJ Number
110364
Journal
Criminology Volume: 24 Issue: 3 Dated: (August 1986) Pages: 421-438
Date Published
1986
Length
18 pages
Annotation
This paper examines the relationship between violent behavior and a variety of measures of social class.
Abstract
Police records from one study and questionnaire data from two studies are analyzed. The strength of the relationship between class and violence varies significantly, depending primarily on the measure of class used. The implications of these findings are potentially profound for class-based theories of crime and delinquency. Methodological implications of the finding are significant for sampling issues as well as for conceptualizations of class. (Publisher abstract)