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Deutsch, Arielle R.; Crockett, Lisa J.; Wolff, Jennifer M.; Russell, Stephen T. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2012
Effects of ethnicity and neighborhood quality often are confounded in research on adolescent delinquent behavior. This study examined the pathways to delinquency among 2,277 African American and 5,973 European American youth residing in high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods. Using data from a national study of youth, a meditational model was tested…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Ethnicity, Delinquency, Structural Equation Models
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Wilson, Helen W.; Widom, Cathy Spatz – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2009
This study examines prostitution, homelessness, delinquency and crime, and school problems as potential mediators of the relationship between childhood abuse and neglect (CAN) and illicit drug use in middle adulthood. Children with documented cases of physical and sexual abuse and neglect (ages 0-11) during 1967-1971 were matched with…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Homeless People, Delinquency, Child Abuse