Doctoral Dissertation Research: A Multilevel Analysis of Youth Crime

博士论文研究：青少年犯罪的多层次分析

• 批准号: 2001727
• 负责人: Olena Antonaccio
• 金额: $ 0.77万
• 依托单位: University of Miami
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-04-01 至 2021-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2001727&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Multilevel; Analysis

In this project, the effects of school-level, neighborhood-level, and individual level variables on youth crime are analyzed using a dataset that is combined from a multi-level survey and the Census. This study addresses the complex issue of adolescent crime in contemporary society by taking into account youth capacity to make decisions and by examining adolescents in different areas in the U.S. in the 21st century. It considers contemporary adolescent crime as a product of the interrelationship between decision-making and various social contexts in youth life including school environment, neighborhood milieu, family dynamics, and other important domains. Results from this project will help develop recommendations for youth crime reduction strategies and will facilitate collaborations between sociologists, criminologists, educators, decision makers, and other stakeholders on strategies concerning adolescent crime prevention. This analysis will use a unique dataset constructed by combining data from a recently conducted multi-level survey of over 2,000 middle and high school students from 40 schools in several metropolitan areas in the U. S. (ISRD, Wave III), the U.S. Census, and the National Center for Education Statistics. Different types of quantitative analyses will be employed, such as multi-level modeling, to address the cross-level interactional effects of predictors on adolescent crime.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在这个项目中，学校一级，社区一级，和个人层面的变量对青少年犯罪的影响进行了分析，使用的数据集是从多层次的调查和人口普查相结合。 本研究通过考虑青少年的决策能力和研究美国世纪不同地区的青少年来解决当代社会青少年犯罪的复杂问题。 它认为当代青少年犯罪是决策与青少年生活中各种社会环境（包括学校环境、邻里环境、家庭动态和其他重要领域）之间相互关系的产物。该项目的成果将有助于为减少青少年犯罪战略提出建议，并将促进社会学家、犯罪学家、教育工作者、决策者和其他利益攸关方就预防青少年犯罪战略开展合作。这项分析将使用一个独特的数据集，该数据集是通过结合最近对美国几个大都市地区40所学校的2,000多名初中和高中学生进行的多层次调查的数据而构建的。S. (ISRD第三波），美国人口普查和国家教育统计中心。 将采用不同类型的定量分析，例如多层次建模，来解决预测因子对青少年犯罪的跨层次相互作用影响。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值进行评估而被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。