Maldonado-Molina Mildred M, Piquero Alex R, Jennings Wesley G, Bird Hector, Canino Glorisa
University of Florida.
J Res Crime Delinq. 2009 May 1;46(2):144-181. doi: 10.1177/0022427808330866.
This study examined the trajectories of delinquency among Puerto Rican children and adolescents in two cultural contexts. Relying on data from the Boricua Youth Study, a longitudinal study of children and youth from Bronx, New York, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, a group-based trajectory procedure estimated the number of delinquency trajectories, whether trajectories differed across contexts, and the relation of risk and protective factors to each. Five trajectories fit the Bronx sample, and four fit the San Juan sample. Differences and similarities were observed. The Bronx sample had a higher rate of delinquency and sensation seeking and violence exposure strongly discriminated offender trajectories. In San Juan, the results were substantively the same. Thus, while the youth lived in different contexts, and the nature and level of delinquency varied across the sites, the effects of most risk factors were more similar than different.
本研究考察了处于两种文化背景下的波多黎各儿童及青少年的犯罪轨迹。基于对纽约布朗克斯区和波多黎各圣胡安市儿童及青少年的纵向研究——波多黎各青年研究的数据，一种基于群组的轨迹程序估计了犯罪轨迹的数量、轨迹在不同背景下是否存在差异，以及风险因素和保护因素与各轨迹的关系。五条轨迹符合布朗克斯区样本，四条符合圣胡安市样本。研究观察到了差异与相似之处。布朗克斯区样本的犯罪率更高，寻求刺激和暴力暴露强烈区分了犯罪者轨迹。在圣胡安市，结果基本相同。因此，尽管这些青少年生活在不同背景下，且不同地点的犯罪性质和程度有所不同，但大多数风险因素的影响相似之处多于差异之处。
