RT Article
T1 (Re)conceptualizing Neighborhood Ecology in Social Disorganization Theory: From a Variable-Centered Approach to a Neighborhood-Centered Approach
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 11
SP 2008
OP 2032
A1 Kubrin, Charis E.
A2 Branic, Nicholas
A2 Hipp, John R.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616547
AB Shaw and McKay advanced social disorganization theory in the 1930s, kick-starting a large body of research on communities and crime. Studies emphasize individual impacts of poverty, residential instability, and racial/ethnic heterogeneity by examining their independent effects on crime, adopting a variable-centered approach. We use a ?neighborhood-centered? approach that considers how structural forces combine into unique constellations that vary across communities, with consequences for crime. Examining neighborhoods in Southern California we: (1) identify neighborhood typologies based on levels of poverty, instability, and heterogeneity; (2) explore how these typologies fit within a disorganization framework and are spatially distributed across the region; and (3) examine how these typologies are differentially associated with crime. Results reveal nine neighborhood types with varying relationships to crime.
K1 Crime
K1 Latent Class Analysis
K1 Neighborhoods
K1 Social Disorganization
DO 10.1177/00111287211041527