Legacies of Crime(English, Hardcover, Giordano Peggy C.)

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Legacies of Crime(English, Hardcover, Giordano Peggy C.) is written by Giordano Peggy C. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 052187971X (ISBN 10) and 9780521879712 (ISBN 13).

Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew 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, violence, and drug abuse, rejecting the notion that such continuities are based solely on genetic similarities or even lax, inconsistent parenting. The author breaks new ground in directly exploring - and in the process revising - the basic tenets of classic social learning theories, and confronting the complications associated with the parent's gender. Legacies of Crime also identifies factors associated with resilience in the face of what is often a formidable package of risks favoring intergenerational continuity.