caa a22 4500 475739345 CHVBK 20180406123455.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005114610839 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005114610839 The ‘Invisible Institution' and Black Youth Crime: The Church as an Agency of Local Social Control [Elektronische Daten] [Byron Johnson, Sung Jang, Spencer Li, David Larson] We examine the degree to which an individual's religious involvement significantly mediates and buffers the effects of neighborhood disorder on youth crime. To test this hypothesis, we analyzed the fifth wave of data from the National Youth Survey, focusing on black respondents given the historical as well as contemporary significance of the African-American church for black Americans. Results from estimating a series of regression models indicated that (1) the effects of neighborhood disorder on crime among black youth are partly mediated by an individual's religious involvement (measured by the frequency of attending religious services) and (2) involvement of African-American youth in religious institutions significantly buffers or interacts with the effects of neighborhood disorder on crime and, in particular, serious crime. Theoretical and methodological implications of the present findings are briefly discussed. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Johnson Byron Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania, USA aut Jang Sung Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, USA aut Li Spencer Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, USA aut Larson David National Institute for Healthcare Research in Rockville, Maryland aut Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/4(2000-08-01), 479-498 0047-2891 29:4<479 2000 29 10964 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005114610839 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005114610839 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Johnson Byron Center for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society, University of Pennsylvania, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Jang Sung Department of Sociology, Louisiana State University, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Li Spencer Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Maryland, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Larson David National Institute for Healthcare Research in Rockville, Maryland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Youth and Adolescence Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 29/4(2000-08-01), 479-498 0047-2891 29:4<479 2000 29 10964 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer