Research Article

Adolescent Offending and the Segregation of Poverty in Urban Neighbourhoods and Schools: An Assessment of Contextual Effects from the Standpoint of Situational Action Theory

Table 3

Variance components of empty multilevel models.

Variance decomposition: disentangling unique between-neighbourhood and between-school variance

Dependent variableIntraneighbourhood componentIntraschool componentIntracell component

Self-reported serious offending (%) 0.23 2.79* 3.02*

* 𝑃 < . 0 0 1 calculations based on variance components from Table 4; 𝑁 : 2294 (listwise deletion).