Fear of Crime as a Social Fact

Liska, Allen E.; Lawrence, Joseph J.; Sanchirico, Andrew

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“…In other words, minorities and lower income individuals are more likely to live in the inland central region, and those who do are more likely to be afraid of gangs. Most of the previous research focusing on race effects has examined the difference between Whites and primarily African Americans, even when the analysis distinguishes between Whites and non-Whites (e.g., Liska et al, 1982, Rountree, 1998. This analysis looks at Whites and (primarily) Latinos, and our results may indicate that race effects are a function of the minority group studied.…”

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Subcultural Diversity and the Fear of Crime and Gangs

Lane¹,

Meeker²

2000

Crime & Delinquency

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Subcultural Diversity and the Fear of Crime and Gangs

Lane¹,

Meeker²

2000

Crime & Delinquency

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“…The logic builds on the insight of the fear of crime literature that has suggested that the racial/ethnic composition of the neighborhood can affect residents' perceptions of crime (Sampson and Raudenbush 2004) and fear of crime (Liska et al 1982). For instance, studies have shown that both black and white residents in neighborhoods with more racial/ethnic minorities report higher levels of fear of crime (Liska et al 1982). If this fear of crime is compounded by the awareness of increasing numbers of crime events in the neighborhood, this might synergistically increase residential mobility out of the neighborhood.…”

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Violent Crime, Residential Instability and Mobility: Does the Relationship Differ in Minority Neighborhoods?

2010

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This study examines the reciprocal relationship between violent crime and residential stability in neighborhoods. We test whether the form of stability matters by comparing two different measures of stability: a traditional index of residential stability and a novel approach focusing specifically on the stability of homeowners. We also examine whether the racial/ethnic composition of the neighborhood in which this stability occurs affects the instability-violent crime relationship. To test the simultaneous relationship between residential mobility and crime we estimate a dual multivariate latent curve model of the change in the violent crime rate and the change in the rate of home sales while controlling for neighborhood socioeconomic and demographic characteristics using data from Los Angeles between 1992 and 1997. Results indicate that the initial level of violent crime increases the trajectory of residential instability in subsequent years, whether the instability is measured as homeowner turnover specifically, or based on an index of all residents. However, the effect of instability on violent crime is only apparent when measuring instability based on an index of general residential turnover and not when including the presence of owners in this measure, or when measuring it based on homeowner turnover. We consistently find that stable highly Latino communities exhibit a protective effect against violence.

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“…Fear of crime and perceptions of neighborhood safety have been empirically linked with perceived or actual minority composition of a local population, especially African American population (Chricos, Hogan and Gertz 1997;Chiricos, McEntire and Gertz 2001;Liska, Lawrence and Sanchirico 1982;Moeller 1989;Skogan 1995;Taylor and Covington 1993;Thompson, Bankston and St. Pierre 1992) as have changes in a region's composition (Taylor and Covington 1993). This is not surprising due to the profound tendency in the USA to equate African Americans, especially young African-American males, with violence and crime.…”

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Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

Mullins¹,

Kavish²

2017

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Conceal carry weapon (CCW) laws have generated a great deal of public discussion in the past decades, but little social science attention. Scholarly worked on the topic has been focused on finding potential effects of such laws on crime and victimization; little has attempted to explain the trends behind the adoption of the laws. This paper attempts to fill that gap by testing a series of hypotheses grounded in minority threat approaches. Our paper examines whether or not changes in the racial and ethnic composition of a county predict the voting outcome of Missouri's 1999 conceal-carry referendum. Findings fail to reject the null hypothesis and show the best predictor of the vote within a county was how that county voted in the 2000 Presidential election.

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Fear of Crime as a Social Fact

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Subcultural Diversity and the Fear of Crime and Gangs

Subcultural Diversity and the Fear of Crime and Gangs

Violent Crime, Residential Instability and Mobility: Does the Relationship Differ in Minority Neighborhoods?

Conceal Carry and Race: A Test of Minority Threat Theory in Law Generation

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