Citation

Robins LN, Gyman H, O'Neal P. Am. Sociol. Rev. 1962; 27(4): 480-492.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1962, American Sociological Association)

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Abstract

Sociologists in investigating the relationship between class and deviance, have almost exclusively viewed class as the independent and deviance as the dependent variable. This paper, using intergenerational occupational mobility as a measure of class and juvenile anti-social behavior as a measure of deviance, offers evidence that deviance determines class. Former child guidance clinic patients seen for severe anti-social behavior are found 30 years later to have more unfavorable occupational mobility than both former patients seen for other problems and normal school children. Juvenile anti-social behavior appears to affect later occupational status by interfering with educational achievement and by continuation into adulthood, when expressed as poor job performance. The disproportionate incidence of anti-social children in the lower classes apparently can be partially explained by their high rate of anti-social fathers, whose own deviance has determined their low occupational status. (Abstract Adapted from Source: American Sociological Review, 1962. Copyright © 1962 by the American Sociological Association)

Socioeconomic Factors
Juvenile Crime
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Deviance
Juvenile Offender
Delinquency Causes
Crime Causes
Class Factors
Social Class
Deviance Causes
Juvenile Behavior
Juvenile Antisocial Behavior
Behavior Causes
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