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- Title
What Mediates the Macro-Level Effects of Economic and Social Stress on Crime?
- Authors
Weatherburn, Don; Lind, Bronwyn
- Abstract
Social disorganisation theorists maintain that structural variables, such as poverty, ethnic heterogeneity and geographic mobility, exert their effects on crime by reducing the level of informal social control or collective efficacy in a neighbourhood. There is a large body of individual level evidence, however, which suggests that structural variables exert their effects on offending by disrupting the parenting process (e.g., by reducing the level of parental supervision).The purpose of this article is to report the results of an aggregate-level study designed to investigate whether the aggregate-level effects of poverty, ethnic heterogeneity and geographic mobility on rates of juvenile participation in crime are produced by raising the level of child neglect in a neighbourhood. The results support this hypothesis. Possible limitations of the study are discussed and suggestions for more definitive research are put forward.
- Subjects
SOCIAL control; SOCIAL disorganization; SOCIAL history; COMMUNITY change; SOCIAL order; SOCIAL conflict
- Publication
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology (Australian Academic Press), 2006, Vol 39, Issue 3, p384
- ISSN
0004-8658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1375/acri.39.3.384