RT Article
T1 The impact of population and economic decline: examining socio-demographic correlates of homicide in Detroit
JF Crime prevention and community safety
VO 20
IS 2
SP 84
OP 98
A1 Hollis, Meghan
LA English
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1700200623
AB This study examined the relationship between neighborhood social ecology and homicide in Detroit, Michigan. Additionally, the research examined the influence of recent population decline in Detroit on homicides through a focus on localized population change at the census tract level. The study findings reveal that the traditional social ecological predictors of crime continue to operate in similar ways to previous studies. However, when the population change variable is introduced to the model, the traditional social ecological predictors are no longer significant. This indicates that population change might be a driving feature of the high homicide rate in Detroit. Implications for research, theory, and practice are discussed.
K1 Social ecology
K1 Homicide
K1 Social disorganization
K1 Population change
DO 10.1057/s41300-017-0037-0