COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS*
The current study examines the contextual effects of community structural characteristics on adolescent delinquency in Iceland, focusing on how specific individual‐level mechanisms work to mediate the contextual effects. Using multilevel data on 68 school communities and 6,458 adolescents, we find a...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00083.x 2024-10-06T13:49:53+00:00 COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS* BERNBURG, JÓN GUNNAR THORLINDSSON, THOROLFUR 2007 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00083.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1745-9125.2007.00083.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00083.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Criminology volume 45, issue 2, page 415-444 ISSN 0011-1384 1745-9125 journal-article 2007 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00083.x 2024-09-11T04:15:15Z The current study examines the contextual effects of community structural characteristics on adolescent delinquency in Iceland, focusing on how specific individual‐level mechanisms work to mediate the contextual effects. Using multilevel data on 68 school communities and 6,458 adolescents, we find a contextual effect of community social instability (residential mobility, family disruption) on delinquency. Moreover, the findings indicate that specific individual‐level social control mechanisms (Coleman, 1988) explain a part of this effect, namely, embeddedness in community‐based social ties linking parents and adolescents and normlessness. Also, the findings indicate that the individual‐level effect of unsupervised peer activity on delinquency is contingent on embeddedness in social ties as well as on community social instability. The findings have bearing on the cross‐societal generalizability of social disorganization theory. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland Wiley Online Library Coleman ENVELOPE(163.400,163.400,-77.533,-77.533) Criminology 45 2 415 444 |
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The current study examines the contextual effects of community structural characteristics on adolescent delinquency in Iceland, focusing on how specific individual‐level mechanisms work to mediate the contextual effects. Using multilevel data on 68 school communities and 6,458 adolescents, we find a contextual effect of community social instability (residential mobility, family disruption) on delinquency. Moreover, the findings indicate that specific individual‐level social control mechanisms (Coleman, 1988) explain a part of this effect, namely, embeddedness in community‐based social ties linking parents and adolescents and normlessness. Also, the findings indicate that the individual‐level effect of unsupervised peer activity on delinquency is contingent on embeddedness in social ties as well as on community social instability. The findings have bearing on the cross‐societal generalizability of social disorganization theory. |
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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS* |
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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS* |
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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS* |
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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS* |
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COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS* |
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community structure and adolescent delinquency in iceland: a contextual analysis* |
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