Understanding youth crime : an Australian study / edited by John S Western, Mark Lynch, Emma Ogilvie.

Aldershot, England : Ashgate, 2003.

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Juvenile delinquency -- Australia.

Juvenile delinquents -- Australia.

Crime -- Sociological aspects.

1. The sibling study: theory, research and guiding principles

2. Offending behaviours: situated choices and consequences

3. Age and offending: characteristics and criminological factors

4. Gender and offending behavious: opportunity, motivations and manifestations

5. Gender and offending attitudes: criminality, compliance and complexity

6. Social inequality, alienation and socio-economic position

7. Family influences and delinquency

8. The influence of siblings on substabnce use and delinquency

9. Urban indigenous young people: criminality, accomodation or resistance

10. Adolescent victimization and involvement in crime

11. Criminality and conformity: implications for the future.

Includes bibliography, subject index and author index.

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xiii, 218 p.