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ERIC Number: EJ694296
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2005-Aug
Pages: 14
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-2445
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Community Context, Social Integration into Family, and Youth Violence
Knoester, Chris; Haynie, Dana L.
Journal of Marriage and Family, v67 n3 p767-780 Aug 2005
The purpose of this study is to analyze the extent to which neighborhood-level family structure and feelings of family integration are associated with acts of violence among 16,910 adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. The results from our hierarchical linear models indicate that adolescents who live in neighborhoods with lower proportions of single-parent families and who report higher levels of family integration commit less violence. We also find that neighborhood-level family structure shapes the extent to which social integration into family matters: In neighborhoods that are considered higher risk environments (i.e., contain greater proportions of single-parent families), family integration is often less effective in deterring youth violence than it is in lower risk environments.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
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