RT Article
T1 Collective Resources and Violent Crime Reconsidered: New Orleans Before and After Hurricane Katrina
JF Journal of interpersonal violence
VO 36
IS 13/14
A1 Weil, Frederick D.
A2 Barton, Michael
A2 Rackin, Heather
A2 Valasik, Matthew
A2 Maddox, David
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760355267
AB Social research has long argued that collective resources and major events like disasters have an important impact on violent crime, but it has been difficult to show their effects because data are scarce. We conducted a large survey in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina that included questions about collective resources. We aggregated our sample to the census tract level and merged it with data on concentrated disadvantage and violent crime. Our analyses show that bridging social networks are associated with lower levels of violent crime, while bonding social networks are associated with higher levels. Social trust is associated with lower levels of violent crime, but civic engagement has no impact. Concentrated disadvantage is associated with higher levels of violent crime. Finally, our results suggest that disaster recovery increased the importance of collective resources but not concentrated disadvantage on violent crime.
K1 New Orleans
K1 Hurricane Katrina
K1 Disasters
K1 Social Capital
K1 Violent Crime
DO 10.1177/0886260518822345