Residential Mobility and Delinquency Revisited: Causation or Selection?

Porter, Lauren; Vogel, Matt

doi:10.1007/s10940-013-9200-7

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“…It is possible that individuals who are new to more blighted areas lack the community-based social ties necessary to aid in their own protection (Kendrick et al 2012), or that they are unfamiliar with how to safely navigate the streets in their new neighborhoods (Sharkey 2006). Either way, residential mobility is often the consequence of structure (particularly structural disadvantage, South and Deane 1993; see also Porter and Vogel 2014), and future work could continue to explore how moving to a new place elevates one's risk of victimization even if they avoid engaging in traditional risky lifestyles like offending (Lindegaard et al 2013).…”

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Structural Constraints, Risky Lifestyles, and Repeat Victimization

2016

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Objectives Research indicates that victims who make changes to their risky behavioral routines are better able to avoid being victimized again in the future. Nevertheless, some victims' abilities to change their behaviors may be limited by what Hindelang et al. in Victims of personal crime: an empirical foundation for a theory of personal victimization. Ballinger, Cambridge (1978) referred to as ''structural constraints.'' To assess this issue, we determine: (1) whether victims who reside in communities characterized by structural constraints (e.g., concentrated disadvantage) are more likely to continue engaging in risky behaviors (e.g., offending, illicit drug use, and getting drunk) after being victimized; and (2) whether victims who continue to engage in risky lifestyles have an increased likelihood of repeat victimization.Methods Ten waves of data (spanning nearly 7 years) from the Pathways to Desistance Study are used, and multilevel models are estimated to examine changes to risky lifestyles and repeat victimization among a subsample of victims.Results Findings indicate that community-level structural constraints impose limits on the changes that victims make to their risky lifestyles, and that these changes influence repeat victimization.Conclusions We conclude that, in the context of repeat victimization, structural constraints are both real and consequential, and that future theory and research should continue to explore how context shapes and influences victims' behavioral routines.

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Structural Constraints, Risky Lifestyles, and Repeat Victimization

2016

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“…When various differences between movers and stayers are controlled for, many adverse associations virtually disappear in some studies, as shown by Dong et al (2005) and Murphey et al (2012) for health and health behaviors, Alexander et al (1996) for school achievements, Verropoulou et al (2002) for educational attainment and well-being, and Gasper et al (2010) and Porter and Vogel (2014) for adolescent delinquency. Contrary to this, a number of other studies find that the adverse associations remain, for instance Bures (2003) and Busacker and Kasehagen (2012) for health, Astone and McLanahan (1994), Hagan et al (1996), Haveman et al (1991), Gasper (2012), Pribesh and Downey (1999), and South et al (2007) for school performance, Haynie et al (2006) for attempted suicide and South et al (2005) and Stack (1994) for early sexual activity.…”

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Childhood residential mobility and long-term outcomes

2016

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To study relations between childhood residential mobility and early adult outcomes, we use detailed longitudinal data on complete cohorts born in Norway between 1965 and 1980 (N ¼ 967 151) and information on all their relocations between municipalities. Results from models with and without sibling-fixed effects show that children with more residential moves are more likely to drop out of high school, to have a lower adult income and to experience early parenthood, although most of these associations are weaker in the sibling fixed effects models. We also find that age at moving matters: the outcomes are similar for children who move or remain in place prior to elementary school, whereas those who move in adolescence are worse off than those who do not.

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“…However, recent evidence suggests that the effects of residential instability may be relatively minor or even nonexistent after accounting for preexisting differences (Porter and Vogel 2014;Pribesh and Downey 1999) or unobserved heterogeneity (Perkins 2013).…”

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Housing and Household Instability

Desmond

Perkins

2015

Urban Affairs Review

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Previous research attempting to estimate the effects of residential instability typically overlooks other consequential changes within households that may be coincident with moving. Drawing on novel data of renting households in Milwaukee that recently relocated (N = 569), this article establishes the frequency at which residential or housing instability is accompanied by household instability: changes in the composition of adults living under the same roof. We find that most moves are accompanied by household instability and that households with young children are significantly more likely to experience household instability. These findings imply that researchers attempting to isolate the effects of residential instability, especially for children, should account for the possible influence of household change.

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Residential Mobility and Delinquency Revisited: Causation or Selection?

Cited by 39 publications

References 40 publications

Structural Constraints, Risky Lifestyles, and Repeat Victimization

Structural Constraints, Risky Lifestyles, and Repeat Victimization

Childhood residential mobility and long-term outcomes

Housing and Household Instability

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