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Title: Residential Mobility and Desistance from Crime and Substance Use during the Transition to Adulthood
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Widdowson, Alex O. |
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Residential Mobility and Desistance from Crime and Substance Use during the Transition to Adulthood Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, 2018 Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Crime; Geocoded Data; Life Course; Mobility, Residential; Substance Use; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The purpose of this dissertation is to advance life-course scholarship by addressing two important gaps in the existing body of research on residential mobility and desistance. First, this dissertation is the first study to examine the relationship between residential mobility (defined as a between-county move) and desistance from crime and substance use during the transition to adulthood. This gap is noteworthy given that residential mobility is an age-graded life event that is central to the transition to adulthood. In the U.S., rates of residential mobility are highest in the young adult years compared to any other developmental period, and scholars suggest that such moves constitute key role transitions and have important implications for locational attainment. Second, this dissertation is also one of the first studies to examine whether the relationship between residential mobility and desistance from crime depends on the context of the move. Although the average effect of moving may be protective, the effect likely depends on a number of factors. Two factors may be especially salient to residential moves during the transition to adulthood: (1) whether the move occurs in the presence of other adult social roles and (2) whether the move results in improvements in community context. There are reasons to expect residential mobility to have stronger or weaker effects depending on these features. This dissertation uses public and restricted geocode data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). These data contain a wealth of information about the transition to young adulthood, including respondents' residential mobility, crime and substance use, adult social roles, and community context. In addition, restricted geocode data allows me to construct residential mobility patterns of respondents from 1997-2013 and determine the county-level characteristics of every residential location respondents reported living at during the survey. |
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Widdowson, Alex O. Residential Mobility and Desistance from Crime and Substance Use during the Transition to Adulthood. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, Florida State University, 2018. |