RT Article
T1 Connected in crime: the enduring effect of neighborhood networks on the spatial patterning of violence
JF The American journal of sociology
VO 124
IS 2
SP 517
OP 568
A1 Papachristos, Andrew V.
A1 Bastomski, Sara
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1689064382
AB The unequal spatial distribution of crime is an enduring feature of cit-ies. While research suggests that spatial diffusion processes heightenthis concentration, the actual mechanisms of diffusion are not well un-derstood as research rarely measures the ways in which people, groups,and behaviors connect neighborhoods. This study considers how a par-ticular behavior,criminalco-offending, createsdirectand indirectpath-ways between neighborhoods. Analyzing administrative records andsurvey data, the authorsfind that individual acts of co-offending linktogether to create a“network of neighborhoods,”facilitating the dif-fusion of crime over time and across space and, in so doing, create path-ways between all Chicago neighborhoods. Statistical analyses demon-strate that these neighborhood networks are stable over time; generated by important structural characteristics, social processes,and endogenous network properties; and a better predictor of the geo-graphic distribution of crime than traditional spatial models.
K1 Neighborhood and crime in Chicago
K1 Spatial patterning of violence/Distribution of crime
K1 Geographic distribution of crime
K1 Spatial diffusion processes
K1 Network of neighborhoods
DO 10.1086/699217