1. What causes crime
Instead, to a higher or lower level, they increase the risk of criminal behaviour. ... Criminologists stress this point by saying that risk factors for crime are increasing in their effect. ... These, too, are increasing in their effect. ... To suggest that child neglect increases the risk of delinquency, or that alcohol abuse increases the risk of domestic violence, is not saying that parents are to blame for delinquency or that alcohol abuse is to blame for domestic violence. ... Factors connected to deviant parental attitudes and values and family conflict are of middle strength. ...
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