Contents
Introduction - Martha A. Gephart and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn
Chapter 1. Ecological Perspectives on the Neighborhood Context of Urban Poverty: Past and Present - Robert J. Sampson and Jeffrey D. Morenoff
Chapter 2. The Influence of Neighborhoods on Children's Development: A Theoretical Perspective and a Research Agenda - Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Hughes
Chapter 3. Bringing Families Back In: Neighborhood Effects on Child Development - Robin L. Jarrett
Chapter 4. Understanding the Neighborhood Context for Children and Families: Combining Epidemiological and Ethnographic Approaches - Jill E. Korbin and Claudia J. Coulton
Chapter 5. Sibling Estimates of Neighborhood Effects - Daniel Aaronson
Chapter 6. Capturing Social Process for Testing Mediational Models of Neighborhood Effects - Thomas D. Cook, Shobha C. Shagle, and Serdar M. Degirmencioglu
Chapter 7. Community Influences on Adolescent Achievement and Deviance - Nancy Darling and Laurence Steinberg
Chapter 8. On Ways of Thinking About Measuring Neighborhoods: Implications for Studying Context and Developmental Outcomes for Children - Linda M. Burton, Townsand Price-Spratlen, and Margaret Beale Spencer
Chapter 9. An Alternative Approach to Assessing Neighborhood Effects on Early Adolescent Achievement and Problem Behavior - Margaret Beale Spencer, Paul A. McDermott, Linda M. Burton, and Tedd Jay Kochman
Chapter 10. Neighborhood Effects and State and Local Policy - Prudence Brown and Harold A. Richman
Chapter 11. Communities as Place, Face, and Space: Provision of Services to Poor, Urban Children and Their Families - Tama Leventhal, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Sheila B. Kamerman
References
Index