School shootings tear the fabric of society. In the wake of a school shooting, parents,
pediatricians, policymakers, politicians, and the public search for “the” cause of the shooting …

Children's neighborhood contexts are defined by rising socioeconomic inequality and
segregation. This article reviews several decades of research on how neighborhood …

Combining statistical and ethnographic analyses, this article explores the prevalence and
ramifications of eviction in the lives of the urban poor. A quantitative analysis of …

This chapter was prepared when all authors were at Columbia University's Teachers
College; Luthar and Small are currently at Arizona State University. The authors gratefully …

Theory suggests that neighborhood effects depend not only on where individuals live today,
but also on where they lived in the past. Previous research, however, usually measures …

Residential instability often brings about other forms of instability in families, schools, and
communities that compromise the life chances of adults and children. Social scientists have …

While recent research has illustrated the frequency and deleterious consequences of
eviction, the number of executed evictions pales in comparison to the number of poor …

Adolescence is a distinct, yet transient, period of development between childhood and
adulthood characterized by increased experimentation and risk-taking, a tendency to …

Extant research has highlighted the importance of multiple characteristics of housing but has
not comprehensively assessed a broad range of housing characteristics and their relative …

Research suggests that direct exposure (personal victimization) and indirect exposure
(witnessing or hearing about the victimization of a family member, friend, or neighbor) to …