COMMUNITY STRUCTURE AND ADOLESCENT DELINQUENCY IN ICELAND: A CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS*

• Published in: Criminology
• Main Authors: BERNBURG, JÓN GUNNAR, THORLINDSSON, THOROLFUR
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Coleman; Iceland
• Online Access: 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

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...