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"Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency

Swartz, Kristin
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343154599

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2012, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Criminal Justice.
This dissertation draws upon the subculture perspective that previously has been used to explain variation in crime across communities. It applies this perspective to schools in order to explore whether schools serve as an important context of cultural variation. That is, this dissertation examines how the subculture of a school- that is, its "code of the hallway"- may influence students' behavior, including delinquency. Further this dissertation assesses whether the school subculture has differential effects on delinquency that occurs in school compared to out of school, whether its influences are specific to physical violence or more general, and whether the influences are gendered. The data used comes from a NIDA funded project and consists of 3,976 students who provided data in at least one of the fours waves. The students were embedded within a total of 115 unique school contexts. The analytic strategy used is hierarchical linear modeling due to having students nested within schools non-randomly. The analysis supports that for some types of offending school-level subculture is significant and that the "code of the hallway" does influence out-of-school behavior for some types of offending. Also, school-level subculture is more important in explaining male offending compared to female offending. Limitations of the data and methods used are discussed, as well as, directions for future research.
Pamela Wilcox, PhD (Committee Chair)
Graham C. Ousey, PhD (Committee Member)
Francis Cullen, PhD (Committee Member)
Christopher Sullivan, PhD (Committee Member)
151 p.
Criminology
culture; schools; contextual effects;

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  • Swartz, K. (2012). "Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343154599

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Swartz, Kristin. "Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency. 2012. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343154599.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Swartz, Kristin. ""Code of the Hallway": Examining the Contextual Effects of School Subculture on Physical Violence, Sexual Offending, and Nonviolent Delinquency." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1343154599

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