Why Delinquency? / / Maurice Cusson.
In this lucid, original, and provocative study, Professor Cusson advances a theory of delinquent behaviour that is both disarming and convincing. Delinquent behaviour, he reminds us, is fairly widespread among young people of all classes and backgrounds – it is not it is not, as some would like to b...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©1983 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (204 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. Strategic analysis
- Part One. Goals
- 2. Goals of the offence
- 3. Action
- 4. Bored to death or frightened to death
- 5. Appropriation
- 6. Defensive aggression
- 7. Vengeance
- 8. The catharsis hypothesis
- 9. Domination
- Part Two. Opportunities
- 10. The opportunity theory
- 11. Confrontation with school
- 12. Work
- 13. Prisoner of the present
- 14. Delinquent peers
- Part Three. Conclusion
- 15. Freedom
- 16. Summing up
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index