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JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 5, Pages 369-381Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC/PLENUM PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1010491218273
Keywords
violence; delinquency; neighborhood; adolescence; socioeconomic status
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Predictors of repeated violent delinquency across ages 13-19 were investigated in a longitudinal sample of 420 urban adolescent males living in high- compared to low-socioeconomic status (SES) neighborhoods. Adolescents in high-SES neighborhoods were significantly less likely than their counterparts in low-SES neighborhoods to engage in serious and violent delinquency. Results indicated that risk factors for later repeated violence among adolescents in high-SES neighborhoods, such as physical aggression, may be biologically based, whereas risk factors for later violence among adolescents in low-SES neighborhoods, such as poor parent-adolescent communication and early intercourse, appeared to be context-dependent. Having positive attitudes toward problem behavior and delinquent peers increased risk for later violence regardless of neighborhood SES type. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.
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