Social Correlates of Rural and Urban Delinquency
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-bgsu15664630666091572021-08-03T07:12:54Z Social Correlates of Rural and Urban Delinquency Natalino, Kathleen Weinberger Sociology Rural delinquency has traditionally been viewed as less frequent and less serious than urban delinquency, limited primarily to acts of vandalism committed by lone offenders rather than groups, and not easily explained by theories of urban delinquency. This study compared involvement in rural and urban youth in a wide range of serious and non-serious delinquent behaviors. Control theory, blocked opportunity theory, and peer subculture theory were tested for utility in explaining rural and urban delinquency. Data were derived from self-report questionnaires obtained from 660 urban and 514, rural high school students in a prosperous north central state. Multivariate statistics were used to analyze the data. The study found that most rural and urban adolescents were not involved in delinquency except for minor theft, hellraising, hedonist, and family offenses. Both urban and rural males were much more involved in delinquency than were the females. No significant urban-rural difference in minor theft, hell-raising, taking cars or robbery-burglary offenses was found. Urban youth were significantly more involved in hedonist, family, personal injury and drug offenses. Greatest urban-rural difference was in personal injury and drug offenses. Urban males were the most delinquent group while rural females were the least delinquent. Control factors, blocked opportunity factors and peer subculture factors all explained a significant amount of variance in delinquent behavior of rural and urban youth. Of seven independent variables drawn from the theories, conformity to parental expectations, peer approval for delinquency, and involvement with delinquent peers explained most variance in delinquency. Peer factors explained most variance in delinquency. All three theories tested with the data were found to be relevant to rural as well as urban delinquency. 1979 English text Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066609157 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1566463066609157 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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