Citation

Taylor RB, Harris PW, Jones PR, Garcia RM, McCord ES. J. Res. Crime Delinq. 2011; 48(2): 298-324.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0022427810391537

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

This work investigates how community variation in perceptions of troublesome teen groups are shaped by delinquency, violent crime, and community socioeconomic status (SES). Experts consider this outcome the key indicator of impaired local supervisory control, and past work has confirmed its critical role in linking community structure to crime and victimization outcomes. The investigation responds to recent calls to learn more about impacts of crime on key community processes. Analyses of Philadelphia survey, census, violent crime, and delinquency data find strong impacts of SES. Impacts of crime and delinquency are significant but depend on how they are separated from SES. Influences of the spatially lagged outcome and partialled SES highlight connections between public and parochial control dynamics. These deserve closer theoretical scrutiny in both the basic systemic model of crime and the incivilities thesis.