RT Article
T1 Moving from the neighborhood to the cellblock: the impact of youth’s neighborhoods on prison misconduct
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 62
IS 2
SP 200
OP 228
A1 Boessen, Adam
A2 Cauffmann, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1576377849
AB  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.
K1 Residential mobility
K1 Ethnic heterogeneity
K1 Neighborhood
K1 Incarcerated juveniles
K1 Wohngebiet
K1 Ethnizität
K1 Jugendliche Straftäter
K1 Nachbarschaft
DO 10.1177/0011128713478131