Psychology - Turning To Crime - Upbringing - Farrington
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- Created on: 04-01-16 13:50
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- Farrington - Disrupted Families.
- Method
- Longitudinal study, over 40 years of interviews
- Self-report
- Longitudinal study, over 40 years of interviews
- Procedure
- - 411 boys aged 8-9 - Taken from registers of 6 state schools in East London. - Mainly white working class. - All from 397 diff families (14 brothers & 5 sets of twins) - Last interviewed age 48, 394 still alive, 365 interviewed (93%)
- Results
- - Age 48, 404 individuals were searched in criminal records, 161 had convictions. - Those who's criminal careers started age 10-13 were nearly all reconvicted (91%) and committed on average 9 crimes. - Number of offenders and offences peaked at age 17.
- Conclusion - Offenders tend to be deviant in many aspects of their lives. Most important risk factors are criminality in family, poverty & poor school performances.
- - Age 48, 404 individuals were searched in criminal records, 161 had convictions. - Those who's criminal careers started age 10-13 were nearly all reconvicted (91%) and committed on average 9 crimes. - Number of offenders and offences peaked at age 17.
- Background
- Family & family life can have a big impact on how an individual develops. So if a family is disrupted in some way, it is likely to impact on the child. Therefore this adds on to a factor of why children may turn to crime. Researchers have found that factors such as large families and poverty can influence on an individual turning to crime.
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