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This paper addresses the question: Have the changes in family structure in the U.S. become a catalyst for juvenile delinquency? For this research, I use existing statistics for my three independent variables: divorce rates, rate of working mothers with children under age 18, percent female-headed households. My dependent variable, juvenile violent crime rates, is measured using data from the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. My control variables consist of the following: percent of population aged 15-25, unemployment rate, incarceration rates, drug rates, rates of gun ownership, police employment, percent of those with weekly religious service attendance, percent of persons who have a "great deal" of confidence in the Executive branch of the United States, and percent of people who can trust others. I examine Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory (1990) as a possible theoretical explanation of the correlation between changes in family structure and juvenile delinquency. Previous research has shown with less supervision, monitoring and punishing the child, low self-control results leading to delinquency. My population includes all individuals in these statistics. I use a time series analysis, spanning from 1980 to 2006, to show the changes in rates over time and the correlations between family variables and juvenile delinquency. / Master of Science

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The theme of this thesis is "Violent Crime and its Prevention". The violence can be seen everywhere, in the family, in school, at work or in the streets. Every day the media inform the public about violent crime. Is it true that the violence increases in our society or is it only a report interesting for the media? The purpose of this study is the answer this question. The thesis is composed of seven chapters and a number of subchapters. The first and introductory chapter defines basic terminology used in the thesis, for example criminology, criminality, violent crime, aggression and violence. Chapter two deals with the phenomenology of violent crime. The chapter consist of three parts. Part one focuses on the state of violent crime. Part two is concerned with the structure of violent crime and part three documents dynamics of violent crime. Third chapter outlines the victims and theirs issues. This chapter firstly explains the terms as victimology, victimity, victimization, victim. Latter parts of this chapter are concerned with the behaviour of victim, the relationship between offender and victim, the typology of victims, the help to victims, prevention from becoming a victim, the victim's psychology and finally analyses the victims of violent crime in the Czech Republic. Fourth chapter is called "The...

Violent Crime and its Prevention Abstract This thesis should provide basic analysis of violent crime in general and main concepts which are needed to know when studying violent crime. Although it is difficult to completely describe whole question of violent crime in a scope of this thesis I would like to give at least a kind of introduction for understanding what is in fact violent crime and how we can deal with it. This thesis is primarily theoretical but contains also examples for a more comprehensive understanding of the issue. My thesis is composed of seven chapters. First chapter represents a brief introduction with basic definitions related to the topic. Second chapter is devoted to perpetrators of violent crimes, how they can be classified, what are their characteristics and by the end, to the psychological profiling which can be useful in cases of unknown perpetrator. Third chapter is focused on victims and fractional topics like a negative influence of violence on its victims in their future ordinary life. In the fourth chapter I deal with two specific problematics within violent crime which is violence committed by adolescents and domestic violence. I briefly analyzed what the main causes might be in these cases and what are the possibilities for improvement and more efficient prevention. The...

Topic of this thesis is The Issue of an Offender's personality. The main purpose of this thesis is introduction of criminology terms and theories. Furthermore, the thesis deals with the personality of the offender and with risk factors, which may have impact on criminal behaviour. The end of this thesis is devoted to violent criminality and murders. First chapter describes essential terms of this thesis like subject and aims of criminology, offender in criminal law and criminology and human personality in general. Most of the criminological theories try to deals with personality of the offender. They study personality of the offender and risk factors from different views, especially with help from biology, psychology, sociology or all of them. Most of these theories try to find a difference between offenders and non-deviant persons. The third chapter of this thesis is very important because it deals with personality of the offender and particular risk factors which may cause behaviour disorders or criminal behaviour. Knowledge about offender is helpful for investigation of the crime or criminal policy. In last chapters are described violent crimes, murders and their offenders. It is hard to describe general personality of murderer, because these offenders have a different motivation to commit this...

This thesis examines the effect of neighborhood crime rates on childhood obesity in Los Angeles County over a five-year period 2012-2016. Using yearly pooled cross-sectional geocoded data from the University of Southern California (USC) Price Center for Social Innovation Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC) interactive platform, I run multiple ordinary least squares regressions using different measures of crime to determine if neighborhoods with higher crime rates influence the unhealthy percentage of 5th, 7th, and 9thgrade public school students. I hypothesize that crime influences obesity, violent crime has a stronger correlation than property crime, and that greater parks access reduces obesity. My regression results fail to support hypotheses one and two. Hypothesis three is supported by the available data.

The study examines women's use of violence, focusing on the experiences of seven women who disclosed that they had perpetrated serious indictable crimes. The crimes included murder, accessory to murder after the fact, manslaughter, child sexual and physical assaults, grievous bodily harm, stalking and threats to kill. The narratives of the seven women form the central focus of the study and these stories contribute to our understanding of the lives of individual women who perpetrate violence. I also include the narratives of one hundred and twenty workers, analyse relevant sentencing comments, and draw on key insights from other research. I began the study believing that I would discover a single truth as to why women hurt other people. My original hypothesis was that women perpetrate violence because of their previous experiences of violence perpetrated by men and/or disadvantage due to structural oppression. In part this assumption has been borne out, with all of the women who participated in the study disclosing that they have been victims of serious violence as both children and adults. However, during the course of the study, I discovered that women's lives and their choices to perpetrate or participate in violent crimes are more complex and contradictory than my simple original hypothesis suggested. I found that the women whom I interviewed and the women whom the workers worked with, were active agents in their own lives, they made choices and engaged in activities that met some of their own needs. Sometimes these choices meant another person suffered extreme pain, injury or death. I came to the conclusion that all of us have the potential to seriously assault others. Drawing on a feminist analysis of male violence, I believe that women's, like men's, violence is also 'individually willed' and 'socially constructed' (Dankwort and Rausch, 2000: 937). I locate women's behaviour in an analytical framework that views violence as a deeply embedded part of our shared ideology, beliefs and social activities. This social fabric contributes to, and fundamentally influences, the choices of individual women who perpetrate violence. The familial, social, cultural and individual factors that contribute to women choosing to perpetrate violence against others are complex and challenging. The study critically examines these factors and describes how different factors intersect with each other.