RT Article
T1 Crime and Neighborhood Change in the Nation’s Capital: From Disinvestment to Gentrification
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 9
SP 1267
OP 1294
A1 Golash-Boza, Tanya Maria
A2 Oh, Hyunsu
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1763749037
AB Research on crime and neighborhood racial composition establishes that Black neighborhoods with high levels of violent crime will experience an increase in Black residents and concentrated disadvantage—due to the constrained housing choices Black people face. Some studies on the relationship between gentrification and crime, however, show that high-crime neighborhoods can experience reinvestment as well as displacement of Black residents. In Washington, DC, we have seen both trends—concentration of poverty and segregation as well as racial turnover and reinvestment. We employ a spatial analysis using a merged data set including crime data, Census data, and American Community Survey (ACS) data to analyze the relationship between crime and neighborhood change at the Census tract level. Our findings demonstrate the importance of distinguishing between periods of neighborhood decline and ascent, between the effects of property and violent crime, and between racial change and socioeconomic change.
K1 Gentrification
K1 Minorities
K1 Neighborhood
K1 Washington D. C.
DO 10.1177/00111287211005394