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  1. PDF Values and Violence: A Test of the Subculture of Violence Thesis

    This research examines the hypothesis that violent behavior results from a commitment to a subcultural value and attitude pattern. Special attention is given to Wolfgang and Ferracutti's. subculture of violence thesis. Two types of violent behavior are considered - interpersonal violence and violent crime.

  2. The Subculture of Violence and

    The subculture of violence thesis may also be applicable to social units of intermediate size, such as neighborhoods and schools. There is a long tradition of studying the variation in crime and delinquency among urban neighborhoods (see, e.g., Bursik 1986; Simcha-Fagen & Schwartz 1986). There is also con-

  3. An Investigation of The Southern Subculture of Violence: Structural and

    and frequent application of this theory is the Southern subculture of violence thesis, which proposes that individuals socialized in the South learn to approve of violence in a wide range of situations and to view violence as important in enhancing their honor or reputation (Ellison, 1991; Reed, 1971).

  4. Subculture of violence theory

    subculture of violence theory. A theory that explains that violence is concentrated within working-class communities due to norms and values that allow for violence. Developed by Marvin Wolfgang and Franco Ferracuti, the subculture of violence argues that violence is not expressed in every situation but rather that individuals are constantly ...

  5. PDF SUBCULTURES OF VIOLENCE AND BEYOND:

    The Subculture Of Violence We take as our starting point the work Subculture of Violence: Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology (1967), by Marvin Wolfgang and his close friend and associate, Franco Ferracuti. This work, first published in 1966 in its Italian version, was published in English in 1967.

  6. Race, victim precipitated homicide, and the subculture of violence thesis

    The subculture of violence thesis suggests that African Americans are disproportionately likely to respond to minor transgressions with lethal force because of a culturally defined need to protect one's reputation and a normative aversion to legal forms of dispute resolution. Using data on over 950 non-justifiable homicides from police files ...

  7. [PDF] The Subculture of Violence Thesis

    The Subculture of Violence Thesis. This paper examines the subculture of violence thesis (Wolfgang, 1958) as an example of a sociological theory with a feedback process. The thesis is operationalized in a simultaneous equation model, which is solved through a technique which uses only a "canned" ordinary least squares computer program.

  8. Values and violence: A test of the subculture of violence thesis

    Investigated the hypothesis that violent behavior results from a commitment to a subcultural value and attitude pattern (e.g., M. Wolfgang and F. Ferracutti's subculture of violence thesis). 2 types of violent behavior are considered-interpersonal violence and violent crime. Data were obtained from the Rokeach Value Survey and a questionnaire concerning attitudes toward and personal ...

  9. Subculture of Violence Theory

    Abstract. In the late 1950s various ideas concerning violent subcultures as explanations for concentrations of violent crime were formulated by criminologists, sociologists, and historians. Inner city Afro-American violence and "Southern violence" were prominent among the problematic manifestations studied. Although subcultural explanations ...

  10. The Subculture of Violence Thesis: An Example of a Simultaneous

    This paper examines the subculture of violence thesis (Wolfgang, 1958) as an example of a sociological theory with a feedback process. The thesis is operationalized in a simultaneous equation model, which is solved through a technique which uses only a "canned" ordinary least squares computer program. The findings do not support the subculture ...

  11. Subculture of Violence: Further Evidence

    'machismo' subculture of violence hypothesis" (1973: 742). In addition, none of the values significantly differentiated between inmates incarcerated for violent as opposed to nonviolent crimes. She therefore concluded that the data suggest "that the subculture of violence thesis, at best, is incomplete and at worst invalid as an

  12. A Test of The Black Subculture of Violence Thesis: a Research Note

    Contrary to the expectations of the black subculture of violence thesis, our analyses indicate that white males are significantly more likely than blacks to express violent tendencies in defensive situations and that there is no significant difference between white and black males in offensive situations, ceteris paribus. Thus, we have rejected ...

  13. The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis

    Abstract. This article reviews some of the existing literature bearing on the subculture of violence thesis (Wolfgang, 1958), reports the results of a re-analysis of survey data collected for the President's Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, and presents new data on peer esteem and social psychological correlates of fighting ...

  14. Sociocultural Theories of Violence

    The subcultures of violence theory have been further developed in the work of Elijah Anderson (1994, 1999) who argued that the high rates of violence among, in particular, socially disadvantaged African-American males can be attributed to their inculcation into what he refers to as the "code of the streets" "which amounts to a set of ...

  15. Values and violence: a test of the subculture of violence thesis

    Special attention is given to Wolfgang and Ferracutti's subculture of violence thesis. Two types of violent behavior are considered - interpersonal violence and violent crime. Findings are drawn from two independent studies: one on the values and attitudes associated with interpersonal violence in a national area probability sample of 1,429 ...

  16. Subculture of Violence Theory

    The Subculture of Violence Theory is a theory created by Franco Ferracuti and Marvin Wolfgang that emerged in 1967 that attempted to explain why violent crimes tend to happen more often in certain ...

  17. The Empirical Status of the Subculture of Violence Thesis

    They judge the subcul- has been the "subculture of vio- tural theme to be "penetrating and lence" thesis (Wolfgang, 1958; diffuse" and argue that violations of Wolfgang and Ferracuti, 1967). Ac- the subcultural norm are punished cording to Wolfgang and Ferracuti, within the subculture. Adherence to violence results from adherence to a the norm ...

  18. The subculture of violence and ethnicity

    Abstract. Using data from the General Social Surveys, this article examines the subculture of violence thesis as it relates to three ethnic groups—blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians. The data suggest that blacks and American Indians have had more violence experiences (hitting and firearms) than have the general population.

  19. PDF Schools, Subcultural Values, and the Risk of Youth Violence: The

    subculture of violence thesis is relevant. First, Felson and colleagues (1994) assessed the subculture of violence perspective using Youth in Transition panel data from a national sample of 2213 male students attending 87 ran-domly selected public high schools in the United States. In addition to finding an association between retaliatory

  20. Race, victim precipitated homicide, and the subculture of violence thesis

    The subculture of violence thesis suggests that African Americans are disproportionately likely to respond to minor transgressions with lethal force because of a culturally defined need to protect one's reputation and a normative aversion to legal forms of dispute resolution. Using data on over 950 non-justifiable homicides from police files, the present study tests this hypothesis by ...

  21. The subculture of violence: towards an integrated theory in criminology

    The subculture of violence: towards an integrated theory in criminology by Wolfgang, Marvin E., 1924-Publication date 1967 Topics Crime, Murder, Violence Publisher London, Tavistock Publications Collection trent_university; internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language

  22. The Subculture of Violence

    The Subculture of Violence . DOI link for The Subculture of Violence. The Subculture of Violence. Towards an Integrated Theory in Criminology Edited By Franco Ferracuti, Marvin E. Wolfgang. Edition 1st Edition. First Published 2002. eBook Published 30 September 2013. Pub. Location London.

  23. The 'Southern Subculture of Violence' Thesis and Patterns of ...

    South because the subculture predisposes Southerners to use violence more frequently than others. This thesis has been questioned by Loftin and Hill (1974) and Erlanger (1975) who show that situational and structural factors could account for regional differences in interpersonal violence.