Journal article
Deserts of Disadvantage: The Diffuse Effects of Structural Disadvantage on Violence in Urban Communities
Crime and delinquency, v 64(2)
01 Feb 2018
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Abstract
We advance discussion of structural inequality by operationalizing concentrated disadvantage in terms of highly disadvantaged communities located at the spatial core of contiguous areas of high disadvantage, and by testing the extent to which such location achieves an independent effect on violence. Using exploratory spatial data analysis and count modeling, we show that highly disadvantaged communities located at the center of a contiguous ghetto have significantly higher rates of violence than other highly disadvantaged communities, but that this relationship is moderated by structural disadvantage. In addition to finding a significant interaction between these deserts of disadvantage and structural disadvantage, as they relate to violent crime, we also observe that in desert communities, disadvantage has a diminishing effect on violence.
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- Title
- Deserts of Disadvantage: The Diffuse Effects of Structural Disadvantage on Violence in Urban Communities
- Creators
- Lallen T. Johnson - Drexel UniversityRobert J. Kane - Drexel University
- Publication Details
- Crime and delinquency, v 64(2)
- Publisher
- Sage
- Number of pages
- 23
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Criminology and Justice Studies
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000422890300001
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85040103956
- Other Identifier
- 991019167760004721
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