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Thesis (M.Soc.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 64-71) Also available in print.

Thesis (M. Soc. Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Also available in print.

Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains vii, 47 p. : ill. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-45).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2004. / Supervisor: Mark C. Smith. Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (M.S.) -- Central Connecticut State University, 2007. / Thesis advisor: Stephen Cox. "... in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science in Criminal Justice." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 31-32). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University. Bibliography: p. 65-66.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Boston University.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Boston University / In order to determine differential bases of prestige, this study compared two age segments of a highly delinquent street-corner group with the two corresponding age segments of a moderately delinquent street-corner group. The corresponding age segments were matched for age, ethnicity, and religion. There were 116 boys in all. The data were obtained from the process records of "detached social workers" who observed the groups for periods averaging 18 months. These field data were subjected to a standardized content analysis system formulated within the cultural anthropological framework. A 19 percent random sample of prestige-oriented acts from this universe constituted the study population. IBM procedure was utilized to obtain tabulations of interaction with reference to cultural practices (drinking, fighting), sports, and club activities, and worker functions. Cultural practices and sportsclub activities were classified into those reflecting lower class, middle class, and adolescent behavior. This was supplemented by scanning the qualitative data. The findings showed that high delinquency was associated with lower social class, lack of father figures, high commitment to lower class behavior, and low in-volvement in age-linked adolescent activities. There was a noticeable lack of concern with middle class behavior. Conversely, moderate delinquenqy was related to somewhat higher social class, presence of father figures, less involvement in lower class behavior, and high commitment to adolescent supported behavior. This group also showed a negligible involvement in middle class behavior. It was apparent from the data that differential group functions reflected differential social organization and acculturation. The functions performed by the groups were related to aspects of lower class subculture. The greater involvement in lower class culture by the more delinquent groups, indicated that the etiology of delinquency can be better understood by further investigating that subculture. [TRUNCATED]

Although there are immense philosophical and technical difficulties in assessing the dimensions and severity of a social problem, there can be little doubt that juvenile delinquency is a proper subject of deep public concern. At the present time, however, few of the methods commonly employed in dealing with it appear to have more than a marginal effect on its ever-increasing prevalence. Part of this problem seems to be attributable to the heterogeneous and often contradictory character of the available etiologies of juvenile delinquency. But part also would appear to derive from the stereotyped reliance on a "case" approach to the phenomenon; an approach which, though legitimate and. even indispensable when some form of psychiatric abnormality is involved in the genesis of delinquent behavior, is manifestly inept when the problem has reached epidemic proportions. The aim of this study, therefore, is to examine a number of recent attempts - of both scientific and a practical nature-to formulate alternative arid demonstrably more effective techniques of solving or mitigating the problem of juvenile delinquency. In fact, many of the programs reviewed do give promise of an altogether higher level of usefulness than can be assigned to the methods which are currently favoured. The position is taken that juvenile delinquency can only be dealt with competently if the decisions underlying the employment of particular programs are based upon essentially strategic considerations of (a) the type of delinquency at Issue, (b) the nature of the causal factors predominating in its occurrence, and (c) the consequent differences in the aptness of the several alternative responses to the problem. The composition and condition of local correctional services are reviewed and evaluated in the light of this critical principle and are found to be alarmingly inadequate to its demands. It is argued that a region, such as British Columbia, which is in the convulsions of rapid social change, is under a particular necessity to anticipate and plan for its social problems with strategic breadth and intelligence. / Arts, Faculty of / Social Work, School of / Graduate