Testing the Systemic Model of Social Disorganization Theory in South Korean Neighborhoods: A Latent Class Growth Analysis Approach to Specifying Pathways to Homicide

This study examines the relationship between structural characteristics and homicide trajectories in South Korean neighborhoods utilizing the systemic model of social disorganization theory as an analytical lens. Group-based trajectory modeling of Korean homicide data across 229 municipal-level sub-...

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Main Author: Cho, Sujung (Author)
Contributors: Lee, Yung Hyeock ; Harper, Shannon B.
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
In: Homicide studies
Year: 2021, Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 139-163
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Latent class growth analysis
social controls
neighborhood structural characteristics
homicide developmental trajectories
systemic model of social disorganization theory
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Summary:This study examines the relationship between structural characteristics and homicide trajectories in South Korean neighborhoods utilizing the systemic model of social disorganization theory as an analytical lens. Group-based trajectory modeling of Korean homicide data across 229 municipal-level sub-national regions between 2008 and 2013 yielded three groups: high-decrease, moderate, and low-stable. The odds of belonging to the high and moderate groups compared to the low-stable group were significantly increased for communities with a higher-level divorce rate and residential instability rate. Social control was significant in the high-decrease group compared to the low-stable group, but had no mediating effect on this relationship.
ISSN:1552-6720
DOI:10.1177/1088767920941564