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Title: Does Leaving the Neighborhood Mean Leaving the Gang?: Considering the Role that Long Distance Residential Mobility Plays in Desistance from Gangs and Criminal Offending
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Widdowson, Alex O. |
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Does Leaving the Neighborhood Mean Leaving the Gang?: Considering the Role that Long Distance Residential Mobility Plays in Desistance from Gangs and Criminal Offending Presented: San Francisco CA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: American Society of Criminology Keyword(s): Delinquency/Gang Activity; Geocoded Data; Mobility, Residential; Neighborhood Effects Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This study considers the role that a long distance move plays in desistance from gangs and criminal offending. Getting out of town and moving away from past problems is an intuitive way to separate offenders from criminogenic environments. Indeed, qualitative accounts of ex-gang members have implicated neighborhood change as an important step in the desistance process. Yet, there is surprisingly little quantitative work that has evaluated the potential crime-reducing effects of a residential move, especially among gang members. Using waves 1-9 from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, this study address this void by examining the effect of residential mobility (defined as a move between U.S. counties) on desistance from gang membership, drug sales, and violent offending. Implications for theory and research are discussed. |
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Widdowson, Alex O. "Does Leaving the Neighborhood Mean Leaving the Gang?: Considering the Role that Long Distance Residential Mobility Plays in Desistance from Gangs and Criminal Offending." Presented: San Francisco CA, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, November 2019. |