Dennison Christopher R, Swisher Raymond R
State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA.
Bowling Green State University, OH, USA.
Crime Delinq. 2019 Feb;65(2):215-238. doi: 10.1177/0011128717753115. Epub 2018 Jan 13.
The growing importance of a college degree for economic stability, coupled with increasing educational inequality in the United States, suggest potential criminogenic implications for downward educational mobility. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this article examines the associations between intergenerational educational mobility, neighborhood disadvantage in adulthood, and crime. Drawing on the few extant studies of educational mobility and crime, as well as social comparison theory, it tests whether the consequences of downward educational mobility are moderated by neighborhood contexts. Results suggest that downward mobility is associated with increases in crime, and most strongly in more advantaged neighborhoods. The implications of these findings for future research on social mobility, education, and crime are discussed.
大学学位对于经济稳定的重要性日益凸显，再加上美国教育不平等现象不断加剧，这表明教育向下流动可能产生犯罪ogenic影响。本文利用青少年到成人健康的全国纵向研究（Add Health）的数据，研究了代际教育流动、成年期邻里劣势与犯罪之间的关联。借鉴现有的少数关于教育流动与犯罪的研究以及社会比较理论，本文检验了邻里环境是否会缓和教育向下流动的后果。结果表明，向下流动与犯罪率上升有关，在更具优势的社区中这种关联最为强烈。本文还讨论了这些发现对未来社会流动、教育和犯罪研究的启示。
