Community Correlates of Rural Youth Violence

Posted on June 10, 2003

Looking at youth violence in small town and rural America, this Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention bulletin finds that high rates of violence were not correlated with high rates of poverty per se, but with higher community rates of single-parent households, population turnover, and ethnic diversity. The report suggests these factors could make it harder for parents to have the time or mutual relationships to work together in the joint supervision of children.