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Violence, Repression et Civilisation des Moeurs

NCJ Number
198219
Journal
Les Cahiers de la Securite Interieure Issue: 47 Dated: 2002 Pages: 9-30
Author(s)
Hugues LaGrange
Editor(s)
Anne Wuilleumier
Date Published
2002
Length
22 pages
Annotation
This article discusses this author's theory of why violent crime by juveniles has increased.
Abstract
The increase in juvenile violent crime in France is attributed, in small part, to a weakening of self-restraint, according to this author's theory. As a self-described "inadequate theory," it is his interpretation that lessened self-restraint is a form of social panic and characterizes the reactions to insecurity on the part of juveniles impacting on the forms that contemporary violent crime takes.