RT Article
T1 Growing Up Poor: Examining the Link Between Persistent Childhood Poverty and Delinquency
JF Journal of quantitative criminology
VO 18
IS 2
SP 159
OP 187
A1 Jarjoura, G. Roger
A2 Triplett, Ruth Ann 1961-
A2 Brinker, Gregory P.
LA English
YR 2002
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764275837
AB Findings from aggregate-level and ethnographic research suggest that poverty and delinquency are related. The inability of individual-level quantitative research to demonstrate consistent evidence of this relationship, however, has been used to call into question whether poverty is indeed related to an increased propensity for delinquent involvement. This may be due to the difficulty individual-level analyses have in identifying the group most important in uncovering the relationship of poverty to delinquency—those individuals that experience persistent childhood poverty. This paper provides an assessment of the effects of both the level of exposure to poverty and its timing on delinquent involvement using fourteen years of longitudinal data for a national sample of younger adolescents. Findings indicate that exposure to poverty and the timing of such exposure are indeed related to an increased likelihood of involvement in delinquency.
K1 Longitudinal Data
K1 tobit
K1 persistent poor
K1 Poverty
K1 Delinquency
DO 10.1023/A:1015206715838