Exposure to Neighborhood Violence and Child-Parent Conflict Among a Longitudinal Sample of Dutch Adolescents

An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much this focuses how exposure structures social interaction, and, ultimately, it motivates youth to engage in troublesome This study builds upon demonstrate strains relationships between adolescents their caregivers, resulting higher levels interpersonal conflict. Drawing five waves longitudinal panel data (n=778; observations=3,458; 55% female), combined with police records violent crime Utrecht, Netherlands, a hybrid tobit regression documents local nearby affects child-parent The results indicate that who experience high neighborhood report conflict parents than low violence. These are consistent across different aggregation.