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Three cities that lie in different parts of Russia were chosen for this study: a southern city (Volgograd), a northwestern city (St. Petersburg), and a city in eastern Siberia (Krasnoyarsk). The data collection took place between the end of November 2008 and April 2009. An overall class sample of 4860 ninth-grade students was defined. The definition of the neighborhoods based on administrative units could only take place in St. Petersburg; here, the local districts were used. In Volgograd and Krasnoyarsk, the urban districts had to be divided into the local districts, which are the historically grown parts of the cities. A total of 198 local districts with a number of the respondents between 4 and 66 were identified for the multilevel analysis.
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The Russian school system is divided into three levels: primary general education (first 3 or 4 years), lower secondary education (subsequent 5 years), and upper secondary education (last 2 years). After the primary school, the school system differentiates between three main types of school: “general schools” (including “general schools with intensive learning programs”; e.g., languages, sports, or music), which normally offer general education programs; “gymnasiums”, which offer humanities knowledge besides the general education programs; and “lyceums”, which offer other knowledge areas (in this case, out of natural science and technology, besides the general education programs that the gymnasiums also offer). Both last types of school, gymnasiums and lyceums, are almost identical in their structure and programs. Therefore, this study joins these types in one type of school, namely, the gymnasium.
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Siegmunt, O. (2013). Kriminelle Russen, kriminelle Deutsche: Zur Jugendkriminalität im Hell- und Dunkelfeld. Berlin: Wissen-schaftlicher Verlag Berlin.
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Siegmunt, O. (2016). Methods and Procedures, Implementation of the Study, and Description of the Sample. In: Neighborhood Disorganization and Social Control. SpringerBriefs in Criminology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21590-7_6
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