Weekendaanbieding Legacies of Crime: A Follow-Up of the Children of Highly Delinquent Girls and Boys (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) – Peggy C. Giordano

Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys who were followed over a twenty-year period as they navigated the transition to adulthood. In-depth interviews with these women and men and their children – a majority now adolescents themselves – depict the adults’ economic and social disadvantages and continued criminal involvement, and in turn the unique vulnerabilities of their children. Giordano identifies family dynamics that foster the intergenerational transmission of crime,…