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Beyond Collective Supervision: Informal Social Control, Prosocial Investment, and Juvenile Offending in Urban Neighborhoods
Author(s) -
Leech Tamara G. J.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of research on adolescence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.342
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 1532-7795
pISSN - 1050-8392
DOI - 10.1111/jora.12202
Subject(s) - prosocial behavior , juvenile delinquency , psychology , investment (military) , social control , scholarship , social psychology , control (management) , collective efficacy , criminology , sociology , economic growth , economics , political science , social science , management , politics , law
This article examines prosocial investment and supervision of youth as separate indicators of informal social control. Data from 599 survey respondents in 90 I ndianapolis, IN , block groups indicate that, at the neighborhood level, the relationship between these two variables and delinquency during early and middle adolescence varies by severity of offense. Specifically, negative binomial models reveal an inverse relationship between supervision and both status offenses and misdemeanors, but the relationship with misdemeanors is stronger in areas with higher levels of prosocial investment. In contrast, prosocial investment has an inverse association with felony charges. Overall, these results call for future quantitative scholarship that contextualizes neighborhood‐level supervision and that is attentive to neighborhood support and empowerment assets in models of urban adolescent delinquency.