Beyond the bell curve: Community disadvantage and the explanation of black-white differences in adolescent violence
Beyond the bell curve: Community disadvantage and the explanation of black-white differences in adolescent violence
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-9125.2005.00035.x
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发表时间：
2005-11-01
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5.8
通讯作者：
McNulty, TL
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作者：
Bellair, PE;McNulty, TL
非裔美国青少年与白色青少年之间不成比例地参与暴力行为是社会科学辩论的一个主要竞技场。个体差异的方法提请注意语言能力作为一种解释的黑人和白人的暴力差异。社会学理论强调社区和家庭的社会经济劣势的变化。我们对比这些因果关系的严重暴力的种族差异的图像使用全国青少年健康纵向调查和上下文建模。结果表明，言语能力通过学校成绩对暴力行为产生间接影响，但并不能解释黑人青少年更多地参与暴力行为的原因。分析是最一致的社会学模型，认为种族暴力的联系作为一个虚假的结果，社区背景。
Disproportionate involvement in violent behavior among African American, versus white, adolescents is a major arena of debate in the social sciences. The individual difference approach draws attention to verbal ability as an explanation of black-white differences in violence. Sociological theories stress variation in community and family socioeconomic disadvantage. We contrast these causal images of racial differences in serious violence using the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health and contextual modeling. Results indicate that verbal ability has an indirect effect on violence through school achievement, but does not account for the greater involvement in violence among black adolescents. The analysis is most consistent with a sociological model that views the race-violence link as a spurious outcome of community context.