Revisiting the Relationship Between Racial Heterogeneity and Neighborhood Crime: Do Spatial Scale and Functional Form matter?

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...

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Authors: Kim, Young-An (Author) ; Wo, James C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2022
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2022, Volume: 68, Issue: 11, Pages: 1977-2007
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
contact theory
Crime
racial heterogeneity
Social Disorganization Theory