Neighborhoods and violent crime

John R. Hipp and Cheyenne Hodgen

Chapter 22 in Research Handbook on Violent Crime and Society, 2025, pp 362-379 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Violence—while a broader societal issue—requires the co-occurrence of two or more people in a specific place at a specific time. As such, a large body of literature has examined the spatial patterns of violence. Much of this work focuses on understanding why some neighborhoods have more violence than others. This chapter reviews the current body of literature that examines violence in neighborhoods, including work focused on how neighborhood socio-demographic characteristics, social capital, housing change and the built environment are related to various forms of neighborhood violence both cross-sectionally and longitudinally.

Keywords: Neighborhoods; Violence; Spatial patterns; Social capital; Housing change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035317851
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