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Subject(s)

• African American juvenile delinquents [Browse]
• Middle class—United States [Browse]

Series

• Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC) [More in this series]
• Criminal justice

Summary note

Most criminal justice research on African Americans focuses on poor Blacks living in poor Black communities. Hassett-Walker expands this focus to middle class Blacks and empirically tests an assertion from Pattillo-McCoy (1999)'s Black Picket Fences--that little difference in delinquency exists between poor versus middle class Black youth. Variables included class status, parent-child interaction, and neighborhood poverty. Parenting behavior and marital disruption were both predictive of delinquency. Having delinquent peers predicted future arrest, suggesting support for differential associati

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Description based upon print version of record.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Introduction
• Theoretical framework
• The Black middle class and crime
• Empirical research on class and crime
• Data and methodology
• Cross-sectional bivariate results
• Cross-sectional multivariate results for Blacks
• Cross-sectional comparative multivariate results
• Longitudinal data and analyses
• In conclusion: acall to fellow criminologists.

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ISBN

1-59332-542-8

OCLC

773565166

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