Black Middle Class Delinquents

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Black Middle Class Delinquents is written by Connie R. Hassett-Walker and published by LFB Scholarly Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1593325428 (ISBN 10) and 9781593325428 (ISBN 13).

Most criminal justice research on African Americans focuses on poor Blacks living in poor Black communities. Hassett-Walker expands this focus to middle class Blacks and empirically tests an assertion from Pattillo-McCoy (1999)'s Black Picket Fences--that little difference in delinquency exists between poor versus middle class Black youth. Variables included class status, parent-child interaction, and neighborhood poverty. Parenting behavior and marital disruption were both predictive of delinquency. Having delinquent peers predicted future arrest, suggesting support for differential association theory. Implications for future research, criminal justice coursework, and government funding are discussed.