Journal article
Revisiting the Relationship Between Racial Heterogeneity and Neighborhood Crime: Do Spatial Scale and Functional Form matter?
Crime and delinquency, Vol.68(11), pp.1977-2007
03/03/2022
DOI: 10.1177/00111287221074969
Abstract
This study examines the relationships between racial heterogeneity and crime across blocks (N = 103,168) located in the greater Southern California region. We estimate negative binomial regression models that test for the effects of racial heterogeneity in conjunction with different functional form and spatial scaling considerations. Racial diversity in the block has a crime-reducing effect, whereas racial diversity in the area surrounding the block generally has crime-producing capabilities, although at very high levels of diversity, the effect reverses and becomes crime-reducing. We also illustrate an interaction effect between racial heterogeneity in the block and racial heterogeneity in the surrounding area. The pattern of results provides a nuanced understanding of how the racial composition of an area has consequences for crime.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Revisiting the Relationship Between Racial Heterogeneity and Neighborhood Crime: Do Spatial Scale and Functional Form matter?
- Creators
- Young-An Kim - Florida State UniversityJames C. Wo - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Crime and delinquency, Vol.68(11), pp.1977-2007
- Publisher
- Sage
- DOI
- 10.1177/00111287221074969
- ISSN
- 0011-1287
- eISSN
- 1552-387X
- Number of pages
- 31
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 03/03/2022
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology; Public Policy Center (Archive); Center for Social Science Innovation
- Record Identifier
- 9984282468002771
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