Crime And Family

by Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey; Farrington, David P.

• ISBN13: 9781592135578
• ISBN10: 1592135579
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-01-28
• Publisher: Temple Univ Pr

Summary

Joan McCord (1930-2004) was one of the most-respected, and best-loved criminologists of her generation. A brilliant pioneer, Dr. McCord was best known for her work on the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study, the first large-scale, longitudinal experimental study in the field of criminology. The study was among the first to demonstrate unintended harmful effects of a well-meaning prevention program. Dr. McCord's most important essays from this groundbreaking research project are among those included in this volume.McCord also co-wrote, edited, or co-edited twelve volumes and authored or co-authored 127 journal articles and book chapters. She wrote across a broad array of subjects, including delinquency, alcoholism, violence, crime prevention, and criminal theory. This book brings her most important and lasting work together in one place for the first time.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
The Effects of Intervention
A Thirty-Year Follow-up of Treatment Effects	p. 13
Consideration of Some Effects of a Counseling Program	p. 22
The Cambridge-Somerville Study: A Pioneering Longitudinal-Experimental Study of Delinquency Prevention	p. 32
Cures That Harm: Unanticipated Outcomes of Crime Prevention Programs	p. 41
The Effects of Child Rearing
Some Child-Rearing Antecedents of Criminal Behavior in Adult Men	p. 57
A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Paternal Absence and Crime	p. 70
A Forty Year Perspective on Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect	p. 85
Family Relationships, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality	p. 92
Punishment and Discipline
Questioning the Value of Punishment	p. 111
Deterrence and the Light Touch of the Law	p. 126
On Discipline	p. 138
Discipline and the Use of Sanctions	p. 144
Crime in the Family
Patterns of Deviance	p. 155
The Cycle of Crime and Socialization Practices	p. 162
Family Socialization and Antisocial Behavior: Searching for Causal Relationships in Longitudinal Research	p. 177
Family as Crucible for Violence: Comment on Gorman-Smith et al. (1996)	p. 188
Alcoholism and Drunk Driving
Drunken Drivers in Longitudinal Perspective	p. 199
Alcoholism and Crime Across Generations	p. 206
Identifying Developmental Paradigms Leading to Alcoholism	p. 217
Another Time, Another Drug	p. 227
Miscellany
Competence in Long-Term Perspective	p. 243
Understanding Motivations: Considering Altruism and Aggression	p. 256
Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Opportunities: A Study of Two Generations	p. 270
Learning How to Learn and its Sequelae	p. 281
Joan McCord's Publications	p. 293
Index	p. 303
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