All of the theories that are described explain crime in terms of the social environment, including the family, school, peer group, workplace, community, and society. These theories, however, differ from one another in several ways: they focus on somewhat different features of the social environment, they offer different accounts of why the social environment causes crime, and some focus on explaining individual differences in crime while others attempt to explain group differences in crime (e.g., why some communities have higher crime rates than other communities).
ROBERT AGNEW
See also CLASS AND CRIME; CRIME CAUSATION: BIOLOGICAL THEORIES; CRIME CAUSATION: ECONOMIC THEORIES; CRIME CAUSATION: POLITICAL THEORIES; CRIME CAUSATION: PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORIES; DELINQUENT AND CRIMINAL SUBCULTURES; DEVIANCE; FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS AND CRIME; GENDER AND CRIME; JUVENILE AND YOUTH GANGS; MASS MEDIA AND CRIME; RACE AND CRIME; RIOTS: BEHAVIORAL ASPECTS; UNEMPLOYMENT AND CRIME; WHITE-COLLAR CRIME: HISTORY OF AN IDEA.
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