TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the Associations Between Community Gun Violence Exposure and Adolescent Delinquency
T2 - Evidence from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study
AU - Pei, Fei
AU - Li, Xiaomei
AU - Kang, Luyao
AU - Wang, Chenming
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2025
Y1 - 2025
N2 - In the past decades, an increasing body of research has delved into the mechanisms of adolescent delinquency from various perspectives, including individual characteristics, interpersonal relationships, school environments, and community settings. However, limited research focused on its association with community gun violence exposure. Utilizing data from 3,595 adolescents (M = 15.63, SD = 0.71) and their families, we examined how the number of gun violence incidents proximal to adolescents’ homes and schools was linked with their self-reported delinquent behaviors, controlling for other important individual, interpersonal, and community-level predictors of adolescent delinquency. Results revealed relationships between gun violence within 1,000 and 500 m of homes (but not schools) and adolescent delinquency; yet the direction of the relationship differs by distance.
AB - In the past decades, an increasing body of research has delved into the mechanisms of adolescent delinquency from various perspectives, including individual characteristics, interpersonal relationships, school environments, and community settings. However, limited research focused on its association with community gun violence exposure. Utilizing data from 3,595 adolescents (M = 15.63, SD = 0.71) and their families, we examined how the number of gun violence incidents proximal to adolescents’ homes and schools was linked with their self-reported delinquent behaviors, controlling for other important individual, interpersonal, and community-level predictors of adolescent delinquency. Results revealed relationships between gun violence within 1,000 and 500 m of homes (but not schools) and adolescent delinquency; yet the direction of the relationship differs by distance.
KW - adolescent delinquency
KW - community crime
KW - gun violence
KW - path analysis
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U2 - 10.1177/08862605241305150
DO - 10.1177/08862605241305150
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85213883879
SN - 0886-2605
JO - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
JF - Journal of Interpersonal Violence
ER -