title: Inequality and adolescent violence: an exploration of community, family, and individual factors.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The study seeks to examine whether the relationships among community, family, individual factors, and violent behavior are parallel across race- and gender-specific segments of the adolescent population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health are analyzed to highlight the complex relationships between inequality, community, family, individual behavior, and violence.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The results from robust regression analysis provide evidence that social environmental factors can influence adolescent violence in race- and gender-specific ways.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Findings from this study establish the plausibility of multidimensional models that specify a complex relationship between inequality and adolescent violence.
authors.affiliation: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Family Medicine, Madison, WI 53715, USA. mbruce@fammed.wisc.edu
authors.forename: Marino A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bruce
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D001741:Black or African American / Q000523:psychology*; D005190:Family / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D012111:Residence Characteristics / Q000145:classification*; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D012962:Sociology, Medical; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D044465:White People / Q000523:psychology*