What cause of offending do you think maybe the most important? Defend your reasoning and draw on the readings when doing so.

Question: The readings this week discuss theories of offending that focus on different causes: family (ch. 8), schools (ch. 9), peers (ch. 10), communities (ch. 12), strain (ch. 13), and learning processes (ch. 14). Chapter 17 discusses desistance, which explores the idea that causes of the onset of delinquency may differ from the causes of persistence in or desistance from delinquency. What cause of offending do you think maybe the most important? Defend your reasoning and draw on the readings when doing so.

Please use the following textbook as your reference.

Feld, Barry C., and Donna M. Bishop, eds. 2012. The Oxford Handbook of Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice. New York: Oxford University Press.

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