TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Age structure and neighborhood homicide: testing and extending the differential institutional engagement hypothesis
JO  - Homicide studies
A1  - Dollar, Cindy Brooks
A1  - McCall, Patricia L.
A1  - Land, Kenneth C.
A1  - Fink, Joshua
SP  - 243
EP  - 266
VL  - 21
IS  - 4
N2  - We examine the empirical applicability of differential institutional engagement in explaining the youth age structure effect on neighborhood homicide. Using the National Neighborhood Crime Study and Census data, we conduct a multilevel spatial analysis of homicides in 8,307 census tracts. We find support for three indicators of differential institutional engagement (disengaged youth, educational engagement, employment engagement). An additional dimension of institutional engagement (familial engagement) operates in the expected direction but is not statistically significant. We argue that previous cross-sectional studies reporting a null or negative relationship between percentage of young and homicide are due to omitting measures of institutional youth (dis)engagement.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1088-7679
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1088767917702474
ID  - ref1
ER  -