SOC 3710 Lecture : Long-term Effects of Youthful Offenders.docx
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Methods: rely upon longitundal research design, two types: Centre for addiction and mental health; able to compare level of drug use for different cohorts over long periods of time) Theories: research begins in the us with eleanor and glueck, they wanted to understand the causes of delinquency, key variable in the area of sociology was social class (back to the work of. Robert merton: they interviewed two groups of youth in the late 1940"s (cid:224) 500 delinquent male youth and 500 non-delinquent males (they were all from working class neighborhood) They gave them surveys and had official records of them, interviewed the youth and their teachers and other school authorities, talked to their parents, they gave them physical exams (thinking was based on william sheldon"s body typology) The delinquent kids were more likely to (a) have lower iq"s, (b) have lower grades, (c) be from broken families, (d) be less verbal, (e) be more physical (more muscular)