TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Cognitive Skills, Adolescent Violence, and the Moderating Role of Neighborhood Disadvantage
JO  - Justice quarterly
A1  - Bellair, Paul E.
A1  - McNulty, Thomas L.
SP  - 538
EP  - 538
VL  - 27
IS  - 4
N2  - Numerous studies uncover a link between cognitive skills and adolescent violence. Overlooked is whether the relationship changes at varying levels of neighborhood disadvantage. We examine the issue by contrasting two models that place individual difference in cognitive skill within a social-structural framework. Using five waves of the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and a three-level hierarchical model, results indicate that cognitive skill is inversely associated with violence and that the relationship is strongest in non-disadvantaged neighborhoods. However, the cognitive skills-violence relationship is indistinguishable from zero in the most disadvantaged neighborhoods. The findings are therefore consistent with the hypothesis that social expression of developed ability is muted in disadvantaged contexts.<p /> 
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SN  - 0741-8825
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07418820903130823
ID  - ref1
ER  -