Social Context, Crime, and Educational Outcomes
David Kirk, Criminology
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aim of this proposed study is to integrate the neighborhood effects and
school effects lines of research by exploring the differential
influences of each context on youth behavioral outcomes: first, it
seeks to determine which social organizational factors of school and
neighborhood environments independently and jointly influence juvenile
arrest and school dropout (Aim 1); second, it seeks to determine to
what extent juvenile arrest contributes to educational failure above
and beyond the common set of correlates which contribute to both
outcomes (Aim 2).