Segregation and Hispanic Homicide

Abstract

As the overall population of Hispanics within the United States has eclipsed that of African Americans, a mounting concern has developed regarding the rise in Hispanic lethal violence as a result of social and economic inequality. One means to measure this inequality is in the form of segregation. Research indicates that in many Hispanic communities, their levels of segregation from the White non-Hispanic population are similar to that of African Americans. Although a multitude of previous studies have looked at the impact of segregation among African Americans, the literature remains under-represented in terms of multi-city macro-level analyses among Hispanics. This current study extends the analysis of segregation's effects on lethal violence to this population. To this end, two measures of segregation were used, the index of dissimilarity and exposure. Using data from the census and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) mortality files, negative binominal regression models were created using a sample of 236 U.S. cities. The results indicated that both measures of segregation show a strong positive influence on rates of Hispanic homicides.

The Transformation of Residential Segregation in the Pearl River Delta, China: A Planning-Driven Form

“…Residential segregation in China is unlike segregation in the West. Residential segregation in Western society is usually based on ethnicity and income, although other factors including individual preferences may also play a role (Bisciglia, 2014;Lens & Monkkonen, 2016;Poulsen et al, 2002;Ruiz-Tangle, 2013). In urban China, the segregation of rural migrants and local residents is a common phenomenon (Huang, 2005;F.…”