RT Article
T1 Disorder or Disadvantage: Investigating the Tension Between Neighborhood Social Structure and the Physical Environment on Local Violence
JF Criminal justice review
VO 46
IS 2
SP 134
OP 155
A1 Barton, Michael S.
A1 Valasik, Matthew A.
A1 Brault, Elizabeth
A2 Valasik, Matthew A.
A2 Brault, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1755890087
AB A renewed interest in understanding the relationship of the built environment with neighborhood crime patterns has encouraged researchers to utilize novel methods (e.g., risk terrain modeling) to better examine the influence of environmental risk factors on types of crime. The current study engages with this research by operationalizing neighborhoods using Hipp and Boessen’s egohood strategy and using Drawve’s aggregate neighborhood risk of crime measure to assess the relationship of a neighborhood’s physical environment with its spatial vulnerability of experiencing a homicide. Findings demonstrate that the physical environment was a significant predictor of neighborhood homicide; however, social structural neighborhood characteristics were more important. This suggests crime prevention strategies like crime prevention though environmental design or blight remediation may provide prudent and straightforward methods to inhibit lethal violence in a community in the short run, but that addressing a neighborhood’s social structural characteristics may be more effective at reducing homicides in the long term.
K1 Homicide
K1 Egohoods
K1 Risk Terrain Modeling
K1 Neighborhoods and crime
K1 Environmental Criminology
DO 10.1177/0734016821996798