Criminal Behavior & Environmental Factors

Cullen, F., Gendreau, P., Jarjoura, G., and Wright, J. Gurr, T. (1970). Why men rebel. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

The author contends that the potential for collective violence can be determined by assessing certain psychological variables in groups or classes in society. Groups's shares of social goods affect their feelings of relative deprivation. Relative deprivation is defined as the discontent that results from the perceived discrepancy between a group's expectations for their conditions in life and their ability to obtain those conditions; Gurr's focus in on economic deprivation. The author claims that people are particularly sensitive to declines in economic goods, especially those segments of society that are already living close to the proverbial edge. A group's potential for collective violence can be determined by analyzing changes in the group's means for obtaining social goods. Thus economic declines can precipitate violence.

Defronzo, J. (April 1996). Welfare and burglary. Crime & Delinquency, Vol. 42 No. 2, pp. 223-230.

Government assistance to low-income persons mitigates the deprivation strain that leads people to resort to illegal activ

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