Compounded Risk: The Implications for Delinquency of Coming from a Poor Family that Lives in a Poor Community |
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| Authors: | Carter Hay Edward N Fortson Dusten R Hollist Irshad Altheimer Lonnie M Schaible |
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| Institution: | 1.College of Criminology and Criminal Justice,Florida State University,Tallahassee,USA;2.Department of Sociology,Washington State University,Seattle,USA;3.Department of Sociology,The University of Montana-Missoula,Missoula,USA;4.Department of Criminal Justice,Wayne State University,Detroit,USA;5.Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice,Eastern Washington University,Cheney,USA |
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| Abstract: | The relationship between poverty and juvenile involvement in delinquency remains central to the study of adolescent development,
but firm conclusions on this relationship have been elusive. The purpose of this study is to address an important limitation
of prior research that often has been overlooked. This involves the standard practice of examining the poverty-delinquency
relationship with an exclusive focus on the family's level of poverty. This study considers that the effects of family poverty
on delinquency may significantly depend upon the level of poverty in the community in which the family lives. Specifically,
drawing from a number of poverty-oriented theories of delinquency, we examine the hypothesis that community poverty amplifies
the effects of family poverty, such that family poverty's effect becomes greater when community poverty also is high. Using
data from a national sample of adolescents that are supplemented with U.S. census data, we find partial support for the idea
that family poverty is consequential for delinquency, and that this is especially true for poor families that also live in
poor communities.
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| Keywords: | Poverty Unemployment Delinquency Criminological theory |
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