Kevin Roy and Nikki Jones (Eds): Pathways to Adulthood for Disconnected Young Men in Low-Income Communities for Child and Adolescent Development: New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, Number 143

• Published in: Adolescent research review 2016, Vol.1 (3), p.275-280
• Main Author: Lynch, Jensen
• Format: Review
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent Development; Adolescents; Adults; African American Children; African Americans; Child development; Child Rearing; Children & youth; Community; Community Relations; Community Resources; Coping; Crime; Criminals; Criminology; Early Adolescents; Ethnography; Exile; Families & family life; Family (Sociological Unit); Low Income; Low income groups; Males; Mothers; Neighborhoods; Parenting Styles; Parents; Parents & parenting; Peer Acceptance; Peer Influence; Peers; Social capital; Social Environment; Teenagers; Violence
• ISSN: 2363-8346; 2363-8354
• DOI: 10.1007/s40894-015-0009-5

Due to the research focusing solely on young disadvantaged men, it becomes clear that their distinctive interactions with their community, family, peers and law enforcement help determine the ease of their transition into adulthood. Parents with an abundance of “social capital” find it easier to find community resources to help prevent or reduce their children’s destructive behavior. Additionally, those mothers with ample “social capital” were able to use resources within and around their community, such as after school programs or help from immediate family members. [...]this is done, it is the authors’ belief that “…parents and the criminal justice system will continue to ‘take boys out of the hood’.”