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Inequality in Crime Across Place: The Role of Segregation and Racial Structure

Inequality in Crime Across Place: The Role of Segregation and Racial Structure. Lauren J. Krivo Ruth D. Peterson Danielle Payne Department of Sociology Ohio State University. SEGREGATION AS: Part of the racial and ethnic structure of U.S. society

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Inequality in Crime Across Place: The Role of Segregation and Racial Structure

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  1. Inequality in Crime Across Place:The Role of Segregation and Racial Structure Lauren J. Krivo Ruth D. Peterson Danielle Payne Department of Sociology Ohio State University

  2. SEGREGATION AS: Part of the racial and ethnic structure of U.S. society Harms Black and advantages White communities Broader more complex effect on neighborhoods

  3. Segregation and the Context of Crime • Racially structured social system • Segregation reproduces racially and ethnically different local structural contexts for crime • Multi-level argument

  4. Does segregation have direct consequences for crime in neighborhoods? • Neighborhoods of differing racial/ethnic composition are located in cities that vary in segregation • Higher neighborhood crime in more segregated cities • For all types of neighborhoods

  5. Do city segregation and neighborhood disadvantage also affect local crime through differential access to more or less segregated cities, AND more or less disadvantaged neighborhoods?

  6. Data and Analyses • National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS) • 9,592 tracts in 91 cities • Dependent variable - 3 year robbery counts (1999-2001) • Neighborhood characteristics • Disadvantage • Race/Ethnic Neighborhood Type • Residential instability • Percent in crime prone ages

  7. City characteristics • Black-White residential segregation (D) • Percent secondary sector workers • Manufacturing employment • Population • Percent non-Hispanic Black • Region (south and west) • Multi-level model • Non-linear poisson model • Variable exposure by tract population

  8. Multi-Level Model: Level 1 Effects

  9. Multi-Level Model: Level 2 Effects

  10. Segregation effect by neighborhood type

  11. White Neighborhoods Black Neighborhoods

  12. Latino Neighborhoods

  13. Conclusions • City segregation plays a broad and critical role in heightening neighborhood violent crime • Blacks and Latinos live in separate social spheres from their White counterparts

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