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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Neighborhood Violence"”.
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Neighborhood Violence Perceptions and TANF Receipt
… concentrated poverty which have high levels of neighborhood violence. Chronic stress resulting from violence exposure can lead to neurobiological changes leading to poor health. Using a neighborhood lens, and the framework of cumulative adversity and advantage including the neurobiology of …
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‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827
<p>“‘To Restore Peace and Tranquility to the Neighborhood’: Violence, Legal Culture and Community in New York City, 1799-1827” examines the various ways ordinary people, legal officials, lawmakers, and editors negotiated the boundaries between inclusion and exclusion, or what historians call …
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Leave No Crime Behind: Exposure to Violence and School Performance in New York City
… academic writers have long connected exposure to neighborhood violence to poor student performance. Newly available datasets, statistical methods and computer technology allow for greater power and additional control in analyzing this relation. Using school and neighborhood data (N = 792,374 …
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The Relationship between Adolescent Exposure to Community Violence, Depression, and Resilience
… adolescents who have been exposed to community violence. Participants (N=334) were asked to take a survey of 81 questions addressing one’s exposure to neighborhood violence, resilience, and depressive symptoms. Participants exposed to community violence reported more depressive symptoms in every …
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The need for outreach programs for African American men in inner city areas
… profiling, substance abuse, homicide rates, neighborhood violence, and high incarceration rates. The research focused on African American males from the Urbana-Champaign area (N=35, 17.0±2.1 yrs). The impact of these barriers on young African-American males was examined. A closer look was …
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Three Essays on Labor and Public Economics
… of survival, and the impact of exposure to neighborhood crime on school absenteeism, respectively.</p> <p>The first chapter studies the labor market effects of a wage subsidy introduced in Colombia's First Job Act. It exploits changes in the labor earnings distribution to measure how the …
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Understanding the Service Needs of Gang-Involved Youth: Social Identity and Ecological Influences on Health Decision-Making
… policy narratives routinely center delinquency, violence, and legal system intervention with limited attention to health and well-being. To develop relevant and responsive service approaches to address needs and reduce disparities, research is needed to examine how and why health varies within …
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An exploratory study of neighborhood-level risk factors of perinatal depression and anxiety among Ethiopian perinatal women
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01