NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME

Neighborhood Crime

Neighborhood Crime

In high-risk neighborhoods, after-school programs (ASPs) provide a supervised context that may protect children by limiting unsupervised exposure to neighborhood risks. Gootman and Smolensky (2003) concluded that after-school-programmes (ASPs) appear “to serve as a safe haven for children in neighborhoods in which crime rates are high and unsupervised time after school exposed them to deviant peers and violence” (p. 129). Theoretically, regular ASP participation may be associated with benefits for children by providing a safe, supervised context and/or building competencies children can use to cope with neighborhood risks.

Much of the literature on community violence has relied on ...