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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chung, He Len
• Steinberg, Laurence
• García Coll, Cynthia

Titel

Relations Between Neighborhood Factors, Parenting Behaviors, Peer Deviance, and Delinquency Among Serious Juvenile Offenders

Ist Teil von

• Developmental psychology, 2006-03, Vol.42 (2), p.319-331

Ort / Verlag

Washington, DC: American Psychological Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2006

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Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The present study examined relations among neighborhood structural and social characteristics, parenting practices, peer group affiliations, and delinquency among a group of serious adolescent offenders. The sample of 14-18-year-old boys ( N = 488) was composed primarily of economically disadvantaged, ethnic-minority youth living in urban communities. The results indicate that weak neighborhood social organization is indirectly related to delinquency through its associations with parenting behavior and peer deviance and that a focus on just 1 of these microsystems can lead to oversimplified models of risk for juvenile offending. The authors also find that community social ties may confer both pro- and antisocial influences to youth, and they advocate for a broad conceptualization of neighborhood social processes as these relate to developmental risk for youth living in disadvantaged communities.