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Author: Triplett, Ruth
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Jarjoura, G. Roger
Triplett, Ruth
Brinker, Gregory P.
Growing Up Poor: Examining the Link between Persistent Childhood Poverty and Delinquency
Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 18, 2, (June 2002): 159-187.
Also: http://www.springerlink.com/content/lxnf3lbuwk7brj1p/fulltext.pdf
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
Keyword(s): Child Self-Administered Supplement (CSAS); Delinquency/Gang Activity; Fathers, Presence; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Parent Supervision/Monitoring; Peers/Peer influence/Peer relations; Poverty

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Findings from aggregate-level and ethnographic research suggest that poverty and delinquency are related. The inability of individual-level quantitative research to demonstrate consistent evidence of this relationship, however, has been used to call into question whether poverty is indeed related to an increased propensity for delinquent involvement. This may be due to the difficulty individual-level analyses have in identifying the group most important in uncovering the relationship of poverty to delinquency—those individuals that experience persistent childhood poverty. This paper provides an assessment of the effects of both the level of exposure to poverty and its timing on delinquent involvement using fourteen years of longitudinal data for a national sample of younger adolescents. Findings indicate that exposure to poverty and the timing of such exposure are indeed related to an increased likelihood of involvement in delinquency.
Bibliography Citation
Jarjoura, G. Roger, Ruth Triplett and Gregory P. Brinker. "Growing Up Poor: Examining the Link between Persistent Childhood Poverty and Delinquency." Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 18, 2, (June 2002): 159-187.
2. Triplett, Ruth
Jarjoura, G. Roger
Specifying the Gender-Class-Delinquency Relationship: Exploring the Effects of Educational Expectations
Sociological Perspectives 40,2 (Summer 1997): 287-316.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1389526
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of California Press
Keyword(s): Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Social Roles

Explores the role of educational expectation, as shaped by both class and gender, in delinquency, drawing on data from a sample of 4,587 respondents, ages 14-18, from two waves of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Three issues are focal: (1) Is social class significantly related to female, as well as male, delinquency? (2) Does social class shape educational expectations and do they, in turn, enhance the likelihood of delinquent involvement? (3) Are there gender differences in the ways that social class conditions educational expectations? Findings suggest that gender and class are both important factors shaping educaitonal expectations and through them, delinquency.
Bibliography Citation
Triplett, Ruth and G. Roger Jarjoura. "Specifying the Gender-Class-Delinquency Relationship: Exploring the Effects of Educational Expectations." Sociological Perspectives 40,2 (Summer 1997): 287-316.