Moving from the neighborhood to the cellblock: the impact of youth’s neighborhoods on prison misconduct

This study examines how prior neighborhood characteristics affect youth’s offending when youths move into an incarceration context. Neighborhood ethnic heterogeneity, residential stability, and disadvantage are often predictive of neighborhood crime, but it is unclear how these neighborhood construc...

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Main Author: Boessen, Adam (Author)
Contributors: Cauffmann, Elizabeth (Other)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2016
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2016, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 200-228
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Residential mobility
Ethnic heterogeneity
Neighborhood
Incarcerated juveniles
Wohngebiet
Ethnizität
Jugendliche Straftäter
Nachbarschaft
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Summary:This study examines how prior neighborhood characteristics affect youth’s offending when youths move into an incarceration context. Neighborhood ethnic heterogeneity, residential stability, and disadvantage are often predictive of neighborhood crime, but it is unclear how these neighborhood constructs continue to affect youth’s behavior inside a secure facility. In a sample of recently incarcerated juvenile offenders (N = 320), this study examined how prior neighborhood characteristics affect institutional offending over the first 8 weeks of incarceration. Although disadvantage did not relate to institutional offending, results indicate that youths from racially/ethnically homogenous communities are more likely to offend during the initial weeks of incarceration, whereas youths from residentially stable communities are more likely to offend in the latter weeks.
ISSN:1552-387X
DOI:10.1177/0011128713478131