Journal article
Predictors of late adolescent delinquency: The protective role of after-school activities in low-income families
Children and youth services review, Vol.33(7), pp.1309-1317
07/01/2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.03.005
Abstract
Research suggests an important link between maternal welfare and employment, lack of after-school care, and a child's propensity to engage in increased levels of delinquency. Indeed, with welfare reform, many disadvantaged families, typically single-mother households, face increased pressures to move off of welfare and into employment or risk losing their benefits, which decreases the mother's ability to provide adequate after-school care and supervision. Using longitudinal data from Welfare, Children, and Families: A Three-City Study, this study assessed how changes in maternal welfare and employment status, as well as participation in after-school activities influence rates of adolescents' delinquency 4 years later. Results show that early and increased participation in after-school activities served as a protective factor against late adolescent delinquency during a mother's transition off of welfare. Youth who increased their after-school activity participation from early to late adolescence had lower rates of delinquency at wave 3. Policy implications are discussed. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Predictors of late adolescent delinquency: The protective role of after-school activities in low-income families
- Creators
- Duhita Mahatmya - Iowa State UniversityBrenda Lohman - Iowa State University
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Children and youth services review, Vol.33(7), pp.1309-1317
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.childyouth.2011.03.005
- ISSN
- 0190-7409
- eISSN
- 1873-7765
- Number of pages
- 9
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 07/01/2011
- Academic Unit
- Center for Social Science Innovation; Education Administration; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984765189502771
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