The role of radical economic restructuring in truancy from school and engagement in crime
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Of late, criminologists have become acutely aware of the relationship between school outcomes and engagement in crime as an adult. This phenomenon – which has come to be known as the ‘school-to-prison-pipeline’ – has been studied in North America and the UK, and requires longitudinal datasets. Typically, these studies approach the phenomenon from an individualist perspective and examine truancy in terms of the truants’ attitudes, academic achievement or their home-life. What remains unclear however is a consideration of a) how macro-level social and economic processes may influence the incidence of truancy, and b) how structural processes fluctuate over time, and in so doing produce variations in truancy rates or the causal processes associated with truancy. Using longitudinal data from two birth cohort studies, we empirically address these blind-spots and test the role of social-structural processes in truancy, and how these may change over timeCitation
Farrall, S., Gray, E., and Jones. P. M. (2019) 'The Role of Radical Economic Restructuring in Truancy from School and Engagement in Crime. British Journal of Criminology, pp. 1-22. DOI: 10.1093/bjc/azz040Publisher
Oxford University PressJournal
British Journal of CriminologyDOI
10.1093/bjc/azz040Type
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00070955EISSN
14643529ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1093/bjc/azz040
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