It's all relative: Concentrated disadvantage within and across neighborhoods and communities, and the consequences for neighborhood crime

Alyssa W. Chamberlain and John R. Hipp

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2015, vol. 43, issue 6, 431-443

Abstract: Prior studies have largely been unable to account for how variations in inequality across larger areas might impact crime rates in neighborhoods. We examine this broader context both in terms of the spatial area surrounding neighborhoods as well as the larger, city-level context. Although social disorganization, opportunity and relative deprivation theories are typically used to explain variations in neighborhood crime, these theories make differing predictions about crime when the broader areas that neighborhoods are embedded in are taken into account.

Keywords: Neighborhoods; Crime; Spatial effects; Inequality; Macro-level effects (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.08.004

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