TY - BOOK ID - 77889490 TI - The alarming relation between early school leaving and crime AU - Smale, William AU - Gounko, Tatiana PY - 2012 SN - 0773411720 9780773411722 9780773426610 0773426612 PB - Lewiston, N.Y. Edwin Mellen Press DB - UniCat KW - Criminals -- Canada -- Case studies. KW - Education and crime -- Case studies. KW - High school dropouts -- Canada -- Social conditions -- Case studies. KW - Juvenile delinquency -- Canada -- Case studies. KW - Education and crime KW - High school dropouts KW - Juvenile delinquency KW - Criminals KW - Social Welfare & Social Work KW - Social Sciences KW - Criminology, Penology & Juvenile Delinquency KW - Crime and education KW - Crime KW - Crime and criminals KW - Delinquents KW - Offenders KW - Persons KW - Criminal justice, Administration of KW - Criminology KW - Delinquency, Juvenile KW - Juvenile crime KW - Conduct disorders in children KW - Juvenile corrections KW - Reformatories KW - Secondary school dropouts KW - Dropouts KW - High school students KW - Social conditions UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77889490 AB - Smale and Gounko study twelve men who dropped out of school early, and wound up in juvenile delinquency. While many studies have suggested a link between early school leaving and delinquency nobody has done a study from the perspective of the criminals using dissimilar populations. The directional causality between criminal behavior and dropping out of school has yet to be established, and this study brings researchers one step closer to fully understanding which one happens first. The authors outline a long list of factors that contribute to early school leaving, and they insist that educator ER -