Wilkstrom&Tafel: Poverty+Disadvantaged Neighbourhoods

Question 1

Design?

Answer 1

Cross-sectional, snapshot study

Question 2

PPs?

Answer 2

Approx 2000 year 10 (14-15 year old) students from 13 schools in Peterborough

Question 3

Procedure?

Answer 3

• 20% of sample were interviewed
• questionnaires in 2000-01
• 1991 Peterborough neighbourhood census

Question 4

Results

Answer 4

• 44.8% males and 30.6% females had committed at least 1 of studied crimes in 2000
• 1 in 8 offenders reported to or caught for last crime
• violent offenders more likely victims of violence

Question 5

Conclusions?

Answer 5

• personality factors= poor self-control, low shame, antisocial values
• lifestyle risk factors= time with peers in public settings, drink+drugs, truanting from school
• protective factors= strong family bonds, parental monitoring, school attendance

Question 6

Key risk factors? (8)

Answer 6

• weak family bonds
• weak school bonds
• poor parental monitoring
• truancy
• social class
• disadvantaged neighbourhoods
• weak morality
• poor self-control

Question 7

Suggested 3 groups of offenders?

Answer 7

• propensity (natural factors)
• lifestyle
• situation

Question 8

Strengths?

Answer 8

• large sample= higher reliability
• interviews= qualitative, concurrent
• anonymous= reduces d.c
• high population v= peak female crime at 15, male at 17
• standardised

Question 9

Weaknesses?

Answer 9

• self-report= open to interpretation of researcher
• holistic= ^ researcher bias
• self-report= social desirability+”screw you”
• ethnocentric

Question 10

Aim?

Answer 10

To study a range of factors and to identify which are the most significant in predicting future criminality.

Question 11

What were the studied crimes?

Answer 11

• violence
• vandalism
• shop lifting
• burglary
• theft of/from cars