ERIC Number: EJ733870
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Publication Date: 2006-Mar
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Relations between Neighborhood Factors, Parenting Behaviors, Peer Deviance, and Delinquency among Serious Juvenile Offenders
Chung, He Len; Steinberg, Laurence
Developmental Psychology, v42 n2 p319-331 Mar 2006
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.
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Parenting Styles, Parent Child Relationship, Peer Influence, Delinquency, Social Characteristics, Environmental Influences, Adolescents, Economically Disadvantaged, Correlation, Minority Groups, Urban Areas, Antisocial Behavior, Predictor Variables
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