Social Disorganization, Extra-Curricular Activities, and Delinquency
Journal: Digital Commons - East Tennessee State University (East Tennessee State University)
Year: 2015

Neighborhood social disorganization has been found to be related to crime and deviance. In explaining this relationship, most have focused on specific factors of informal social control and collective efficacy. Using data from the 2000 National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (n = 12,800), the relationship between social disorganization and delinquent outcomes was examined by looking at extra-curricular activities as intervening mechanisms with logistic regression in SPSS. While the effect of soc