Poverty and disadvantaged neighbourhoods - Wilkstrom and Tafel (Upbringing)

UPBRINGING

Key points:

• Cross-sectional study
• 2000 year 10 students from 13 state schools in Peterborough
• Interview & data collection. Questionnaires given. Quasi-random of 339 pupils of 2000 chosen for interview.
• Specifically looking at poverty and disadvantage (also police contact, cannabis use, mood disorders etc)

Selected key findings:

• 45% males and 30% females committed at leasr 1 of studies crimes (violence etc) during 2000.
• Tend to commit wide range of diff crimes.
• 1 in 8 reported to or caught by police for their last committed crime.
• Offenders more often drunk and more often use drunks than other youths.

Influence in leading to future criminal activity in youths:

• Individual characteristics and way lived lives.
• Key risk factors = weak family & school bonds,…