Books, journals, and articles p. 19

1. Possible key words for socio-economic factors on youth offending

  • Youth offending
  • Social factors
  • Economic factors
  • Socio-economic factors

2. Possible synonyms

  • Young offenders
  • Young criminals
  • Youth criminals
  • Youth crime
  • Youth offending
  • Society
  • Fiscal
  • Financial
  • Culture
  • Community

This list is not exhaustive and you may well have come up with others that are equally valid!

Copac gives access to a huge variety of potential resources – far too many to list here – but it would be useful to try various combinations of the key words and synonyms in the title, subject and keyword fields within the ‘Main Search’ tab on the Copac website.

This will give a range of potentially useful sources which you may wish to restrict further; for instance by historical context, geography, or date of publication.

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