Wikstrom and Tafel
Turning to Crime G543
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- Wikstrom and Tafel - Peterborough Youth Study
- A cross sectional longitudinal study
- Pilot Study done in Cambridge
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- 2000 year 10 students aged 14 to 15
- Data collected from official records and Self Report
- A certain length of time to provide accurate accounts
- A cross sectional longitudinal study
- A cross sectional longitudinal study
- Pilot Study done in Cambridge
- Chance to win £15 music token
- 2000 year 10 students aged 14 to 15
- Data collected from official records and Self Report
- A certain length of time to provide accurate accounts
- Results
- 44.8% of males and 30.6% of females have commited a crime
- Wikstrom and Tafel - Peterborough Youth Study
- 9.8% of males and 3.8% of females have committed a serious crime
- Results
- 44.8% of males and 30.6% of females have commited a crime
- Results
- High Frequency offenders tend to commit wide ranging crimes
- 1 in 8 offenders caught by police in last crime
- Explanatory Factors
- Social Position
- Week Morality
- Individual Characteristics
- Explanatory Factors
- Social Position
- Week Morality
- Explanatory Factors
- Weak Family and School bonds
- Poor Self Control
- Conclusions - presence of 3 groups
- Propensity induced - Individual Characteristics
- Lifestyle Dependent - mostly situation factors
- Propensity induced - Individual Characteristics
- Smallest yer offends the most
- Lifestyle Dependent - mostly situation factors
- Situationally Limited - only offend when exposed to high risks
- Conclusions - presence of 3 groups
- Conclusions - presence of 3 groups
- Holistic methods - multiple reasons
- Reductionist however as only looked at those in poverty
- Holistic methods - multiple reasons
- Holistic methods - multiple reasons
- 25% of children in Peterborough 2001 lived below the poverty line
- Reductionist however as only looked at those in poverty
- Reductionist however as only looked at those in poverty
- Social Desirability - only crimes that were recorded can be checked
- Ethnocentric
- Large sample size - can be generalized
- High Mundane Realism
- Large sample size - can be generalized
- Large sample size - can be generalized
- High Ecological Validity
- Increased reliability
- Quantitative Data - easy to analyse
- 9.8% of males and 3.8% of females have committed a serious crime
- 9.8% of males and 3.8% of females have committed a serious crime
- Bandura - Social Learning Theory
- Yochelson and Samenow - NGRI
- Individual Characteristics
- Individual Characteristics
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