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The Cycle of Deviant Behavior

Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism

The Cycle of Deviant Behavior
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To conduct the study on criminal and antisocial behavior at the center of this volume, the authors devoted years to collecting data from a large community sample of first-generation subjects. Data were garnered throughout their early adolescence, twenties, and thirties as well as from these first-generation subjects' biological children during their own early adolescence. The results of these studies have profound implications for future research and methodology on deviant behavior. Within the succinct, information-packed seven chapters of "The Cycle of Deviant Behavior: Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism", the authors: present an integrative theory of deviant behavior, synthesizing social stress, social control, societal labeling, and other perspectives; describe the intergenerational cycle of deviant behavior; identify the relationship between deviance and its significant correlates (e.g., self-rejection); explain factors central to motivation toward deviant behaviors and to the continuance or discontinuance of these behaviors across generations; and review the literature on intergenerational parallelism and discuss the methodological limitations of current studies.
Springer; January 2006
241 pages; ISBN 9780387326443
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