The sociological imagination revisited: lessons from <Emphasis Type="Italic">America’s Safest City</Emphasis>

In America’s Safest City, Simon Singer embraces the sociological imagination to situate juveniles’ personal troubles within the context of middle-class affluence and modernity. In so doing, he departs from the standard research paradigm that seeks to explain delinquency by using secondary data sets that contain limited measures of theoretical constructs identified by reigning perspectives. Singer’s decision has resulted in a rich analysis that is replete with criminological lessons about the nature of delinquency. Four such lessons are presented here, which include: (1) a lower-class bias has clouded thinking about crime; (2) the reaction to crime differs across classes; (3) parents matter in producing adolescence-limited antisocial youths; and (4) suburban delinquency may be a precursor to white-collar crime.     

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《中华人民共和国刑法修正案》的颁布，是我国刑事立法的一大进步，它无论从修改《刑法》的方式，还是修改《刑法》的内容，都会对我国今后的刑事立法产生深远的影响，也会对我国市场经济的发展产生积极的作用。