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In “Crime and Juvenile Delinquency,” Lawrence W. Sherman, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Sociology, describes how changes in criminal and other dysfunctional behaviors could be measured. He relies on data from the National Crime Victimization Survey and the Uniform Crime Reporting System. Sherman describes how criminal behavior tends to be concentrated in inner-city neighborhoods. He contends that “it is misleading to compare homicide rates across cities or to look at national homicide rates without disaggregating them by the factors that are most strongly correlated with their existence.” Although individual characteristics, such as age, race, and income, are important, he notes that “the effects of those characteristics are magnified by location and space.”
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Lawrence W. Sherman is director of the Jerry Lee Center of Criminology and the Albert M. Greenfield Professor of Human Relations in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Among his publications arePreventing Crime: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Promising (with David P. Farrington and Brandon Welsh, 1997);Policing Domestic Violence: Experiments and Dilemmas (with Janell D. Schmidt and Dennis P. Rogan, 1992); andScandal and Reform: Controlling Police Corruption (1978).
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Sherman, L.W. Crime and juvenile delinquency. Gender Issues 23, 60–68 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03186790
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03186790