Establishment of a Juvenile Police Record:
作者:
MERRY MORASH,
期刊:
Criminology
(WILEY Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 22,
issue 1
页码: 97-111
ISSN:0011-1384
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1111/j.1745-9125.1984.tb00290.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractAccording to the symbolic interactionist perspective, the juveniles who are most likely to have a police record of arrest are those who conform to police preconceptions about delinquent types, who are perceived as a threat to others, and who are most visible to the police. Several individual and peer group characteristics can serve as cues that youths are delinquent or that they pose a threat and can increase visibility. The present study uses a survey approach to determine the relative association of these individual and peer group characteristics with the establishment of a police record. The analysis reveals that in addition to delinquent activities, fitting the common image of a delinquent and dangerous person–that is, being a male in a predominantly, male, delinquent peer group–increases a youth's chances of arrest. Moreover, committing a high proportion of offenses with a group of peers, which results in high visibility, also increases the chances of arr
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