Neighborhood Violence: A Literature Review

As I reviewed literature already done by scholars, I came across a scholarly pair by the names of Jennifer Castro and Bart Landry as well as a handful of other authors who had formerly touched on different pieces of my research question. In 2005, Castro and Landry wrote an article by the name of Race, Gender, and Class Variation in the Effect of Neighborhood Violence on Adolescent Use of Violence. In this article, the scholarly pair examined how Neighborhood Violence led to the Adolescents use of violence and how Race, Gender and Class played a huge part in it.
Neighborhood Violence can range from Drive by shootings, to neighborhood gang fights. In Castro’s and Landry’s article, the pair mention that after a violent event takes place, adolescents need to cope. This article used keywords that related to my question including the words social class, and juvenile delinquency. This …show more content…
Grove and Robert D. Crutchfield wrote an article called The Family and Juvenile Delinquency. This article focused on the role marriage plays in the marital partners but more importantly and more related to my research question, the crucial role a firm and strong marriage plays in the lives of children, and how the deviant traits of the family can be related to juvenile delinquency. The effects of family relationships were less strong for boys and more strong for girls. “White boys are 19% more likely to misbehave than black boys. 30% of the boys involved in this study were delinquents and so were 20% of the girls studied. (Grove Crutchfield 1982)” Physical punishment was strictly related to misbehavior in both girls and boys. The feelings of the parents toward the child was a huge predictor of juvenile delinquency. This predictor proved stronger for girls than it was for boys. There are many factors which either lead or mislead a child into juvenile delinquency. My duty is to use this research found and try and come up with a possible solution to help decrease Juvenile