Sociology Faculty Publications
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Drawing on structural racism and urban disadvantage approaches, this article posits a broad influence of citywide racial residential segregation on levels of violent crime across all urban neighborhoods regardless of their racial/ethnic composition. Multilevel models based on data from the National Neighborhood Crime Study for 7,622 neighborhoods in 79 cities throughout the United States reveal that segregation is positively associated with violent crime for white and various types of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nonetheless, there is a lack of parity in violence across these types of communities reflecting the larger racialized social system in which whites are able to use their privileged position to reside in the most advantaged neighborhoods, while African-Americans and Latinos live in the most disadvantaged urban communities and therefore bear the brunt of urban criminal violence.
Repository Citation
Kuhl, Danielle Corinne; Krivo, Lauren J.; and Peterson, Ruth D., "Segregation, Racial Structure, and Neighborhood Violent Crime" (2009). Sociology Faculty Publications. 8.
https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/soc_pub/8
Publication Date
4-2009
Publication Title
American Journal of Sociology
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Start Page No.
1765
End Page No.
1802