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Parker, Karen. and Maggard, Scott. "Making a Difference: The Impact of Traditional Male Role Models on Drug Sale Activity and Violence Involving Black Urban Youth" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2008-12-16 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237049_index.html>

Parker, K. F. and Maggard, S. R. , 2008-07-31 "Making a Difference: The Impact of Traditional Male Role Models on Drug Sale Activity and Violence Involving Black Urban Youth" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2008-12-16 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p237049_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Elijah Anderson’s Code of the Street provides an ethnographic account of a disadvantaged urban environment where residents face poverty and racial residential isolation. For Anderson, job loss among African-American men deprive youth of role models, creating a context for the ‘street code’ to govern behavior, leading youth to violence. Similarly, a disadvantaged urban setting where participation in legitimate labor market activity is lacking, youth also seek illicit markets for a means of economic support. Drawing on Anderson’s work, we assess the availability of male role models (older, employed black males) and the concentration of urban disadvantage on black juvenile drug sales and violent arrests across multiple cities in 2000. We find empirical support for Anderson’s concerns about the removal of traditional role models from urban areas as a result of joblessness and concentrated disadvantage. We further find that the presence of traditional role models reduces violence by youth, but these men are unable to reduce the economic lure of drug sales in disadvantaged environments.

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