RT Article
T1 Revisiting the Relationship Between Racial Heterogeneity and Neighborhood Crime: Do Spatial Scale and Functional Form matter?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 11
SP 1977
OP 2007
A1 Kim, Young-An
A2 Wo, James C.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616539
AB This study examines the relationships between racial heterogeneity and crime across blocks (N = 103,168) located in the greater Southern California region. We estimate negative binomial regression models that test for the effects of racial heterogeneity in conjunction with different functional form and spatial scaling considerations. Racial diversity in the block has a crime-reducing effect, whereas racial diversity in the area surrounding the block generally has crime-producing capabilities, although at very high levels of diversity, the effect reverses and becomes crime-reducing. We also illustrate an interaction effect between racial heterogeneity in the block and racial heterogeneity in the surrounding area. The pattern of results provides a nuanced understanding of how the racial composition of an area has consequences for crime.
K1 contact theory
K1 Crime
K1 racial heterogeneity
K1 Social Disorganization Theory
DO 10.1177/00111287221074969