Age Structure and Neighborhood Homicide: Testing and Extending the Differential Institutional Engagement Hypothesis

Autor:	Cindy Brooks Dollar, Joshua Fink, Kenneth C. Land, Patricia L. McCall
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	05 social sciences Multilevel model Poison control Human factors and ergonomics Suicide prevention Occupational safety and health Pathology and Forensic Medicine Homicide Negative relationship Injury prevention 050501 criminology Psychology (miscellaneous) Sociology Law Social psychology 0505 law
Zdroj:	Homicide Studies. 21:243-266
ISSN:	1552-6720 1088-7679
DOI:	10.1177/1088767917702474
Popis:	We examine the empirical applicability of differential institutional engagement in explaining the youth age structure effect on neighborhood homicide. Using the National Neighborhood Crime Study and Census data, we conduct a multilevel spatial analysis of homicides in 8,307 census tracts. We find support for three indicators of differential institutional engagement (disengaged youth, educational engagement, employment engagement). An additional dimension of institutional engagement (familial engagement) operates in the expected direction but is not statistically significant. We argue that previous cross-sectional studies reporting a null or negative relationship between percentage of young and homicide are due to omitting measures of institutional youth (dis)engagement.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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