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Title: Cognitive Skills, Adolescent Violence, and the Moderating Role of Neighborhood Disadvantage
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Bellair, Paul E. McNulty, Thomas L. |
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Cognitive Skills, Adolescent Violence, and the Moderating Role of Neighborhood Disadvantage Justice Quarterly 27,4 (August 2010): 538-559. Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07418820903130823 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior, Violent; Cognitive Ability; Neighborhood Effects; Social Environment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Numerous studies uncover a link between cognitive skills and adolescent violence. Overlooked is whether the relationship changes at varying levels of neighborhood disadvantage. We examine the issue by contrasting two models that place individual difference in cognitive skill within a social-structural framework. Using five waves of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a three-level hierarchical model, results indicate that cognitive skill is inversely associated with violence and that the relationship is strongest in non-disadvantaged neighborhoods. However, the cognitive skills-violence relationship is indistinguishable from zero in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The findings are therefore consistent with the hypothesis that social expression of developed ability is muted in disadvantaged contexts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of JQ: Justice Quarterly is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.) |
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Bellair, Paul E. and Thomas L. McNulty. "Cognitive Skills, Adolescent Violence, and the Moderating Role of Neighborhood Disadvantage." Justice Quarterly 27,4 (August 2010): 538-559.
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