Upbringing:Poverty

KeyStudy3:Wikstrom and Tafel-The peterborough Youth Study

Aim:To investigate why young people offend.

Procedure:

• Cross-sectional study on 2000 from 13 state schools
• year 10 students from Peterborough
• Aged 14-15
• Data collected from offical records and the students were interviewed.

Results:

• 44.8% of males and 30.6% of females had committed at least one crime during the year 2000.
• 9.8% of males and 3.8% of females had committed a serious crime of theft.
• one in eight were reported to or caught by the police for their last offence.
• Offenders are victimised more often than non-offenders.
• Offenders…