Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Family disruption"”.
-
Essays in Economics of Child Development
… consists of two chapters and examines how the family and place of residence in which a child is raised are crucial to their human capital formation. The first chapter investigates how family-school-neighborhood combinations influence human capital accumulation, measured by test score gains. I …
-
Social disorganisation theory and violent crime: A spatial-econometric analysis of Chicago and Sydney
… population heterogeneity, residential mobility, family disruption and urbanisation. Criminal violence forms the dependent variable. All variables are observed to exhibit spatial autocorrelation. In response, Spatial Durbin Models are selected for each case study. This selection is supported by …
-
Bonding and Psychosocial Adjustment of Youth in Foster Care
… issues that include a history of maltreatment, family disruption, placement instability, behavioral problems, and other adjustment related concerns. Adjusting to these issues presents unique challenges to foster youths and their families. Using family systems theory as the theoretical lens, this …
-
Social Disorganization, Crime, and Displacement: An Evaluation of HOPE VI in Lexington, Kentucky
… likely to be disadvantaged in terms of crime, family structure, housing, and affluence. Poisson-based regression models indicated that the presence of displaced HOPE VI residents significantly predicted the likelihood of a neighborhood having high rates of crime, family disruption, and …
-
War on Drugs: Examining the Effects on Social Disorganization and Crime in Cities
… residential mobility, racial inequality, and family disruption) were considered, all of which allowed researchers to study patterns of crime in large urban areas. The latest argument put forward in the 1990s is that wider macro-structural forces, may actually promote structural antecedents …
-
Examining Spatiotemporal Change in Neighborhood Crime Using Social Disorganization as a Theoretical Framework: A 10-Year Analysis of Homicide in the City of Richmond, VA
… mobility, race/ethnic heterogeneity, family disruption, socio-economic status, population density, youth, and vacancy) to test SDT, while it establishes and further confirms its main hypothesis "Neighborhood homicide increase is likely to be associated by the increase in neighborhood …
-
The Role of Institutions in the Transition to Adulthood and Their Impact on Pathways to Adulthood and Adult Criminal Outcomes
… to a romantic partner, and starting a family. However, many individuals do not have the resources or supports that would enable them to delay adopting one or more of those roles, experiencing an accelerated transition to adulthood. An accelerated transition can pose more challenges in …
-
The individual and collective consequences of mass incarceration in the African American community
<p>While over time the terms of reference (e.g., Negro, Colored, Black, African American, Afrikan) have changed, the degraded cast status of Black people has been an immutable constant. For the purpose of this paper, African American and Black will be used interchangeably. No other minority …