Segregated Spatial Locations, Race-Ethnic Composition, and Neighborhood Violent Crime

Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo
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Ruth D. Peterson: Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University, peterson.5@sociology.osu.edu
Lauren J. Krivo: Criminal Justice Research Center at Ohio State University

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2009, vol. 623, issue 1, 93-107

Abstract: How can we understand the dramatic linkages among race, ethnicity, place, and violence in the United States? One contention is that differences in violence across communities of varying race-ethnic compositions are rooted in highly differentiated social and economic circumstances of the segregated neighborhoods inhabited by whites, African Americans, Latinos, and other groups. Here, the authors draw upon and expand this perspective by exploring how inequality in the character of internal and nearby neighborhood conditions leads to patterned racial and ethnic differences in violence across areas. Using data from the National Neighborhood Crime Study to examine the racial-spatial dynamic of violence for neighborhoods in thirty-six U.S. cities, the authors demonstrate that along with the social and economic conditions that exist within neighborhoods, proximity to more disadvantaged and especially racially privileged (heavily white) areas is particularly critical in accounting for the large and visible differences in violence found across neighborhoods of different colors.

Keywords: neighborhood violence; spatial location effects; race/ethnicity; crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0002716208330490

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