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- Title
Social Class and Crime, One More Time.
- Authors
Nettler, Gwynn
- Abstract
This article presents comments of the author on the book "Social Class and Criminal Behavior. A Critique of the Theoretical Foundation," by Charles R. Tittle. The author says that Tittle attempts to challenge the possible negative correlation between crime and social class by showing that eight theories of criminologenesis poorly generate such a hypothesis. The usual criteria of social class, such as occupational prestige and quantities of income and schooling, are themselves only modestly correlated with class as a cultural category. And it is this cultural concept of social position that is employed by some of the theories Tittle considers, particularly control theory in its expanded form and the subcultural perspective. Tittle's book ignores the correlations between kinds of people and their situations and kinds of theft and physical attack that have been repeatedly reported from diverse measures. There is more concord than discord in the social maps of such crimes drawn by ethnographic investigations, surveys of victims, police tallies, unobtrusive measures, ecological analyses, individual case observations, cohort research, and even self-report studies of felonious behavior.
- Subjects
SOCIAL Class &; Criminal Behavior: A Critique of the Theoretical Foundation (Book); TITTLE, Charles R.; CRIMINAL behavior; SOCIAL classes; CRIMINAL psychology; OCCUPATIONAL prestige
- Publication
Social Forces, 1985, Vol 63, Issue 4, p1076
- ISSN
0037-7732
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/2578609