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Drive-Bys and Trade-Ups: Examining the Directionality of the Crime and Residential Instability Relationship
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Hipp. John R.; Tita, George E.; Greenbaum, Robert T. – Social Forces, 2009
Most prior research testing the hypothesis of the social disorganization theory that residential instability increases crime has used cross-sectional data. Using a unique dataset linking home sales address matched to census tracts with crime data in Los Angeles, we test the direction of this relationship using a six-year panel data design. We also…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Community Characteristics, Crime, Violence
Social Relations That Generate and Sustain Solidarity after a Mass Tragedy
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Hawdon, James; Ryan, John – Social Forces, 2011
Numerous researchers discuss the solidarity-producing effects of crime, natural disasters and mass tragedies; however, there is much we do not understand about the processes involved in the phenomena. We specify the social relationships that "generate" and "sustain" solidarity by building on Hunter's descriptions of the…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Safety, Violence, School Security
Collateral Consequences of Violence in Disadvantaged Neighborhoods
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Harding, David J. – Social Forces, 2009
Using data from Add Health, this study investigates the role of neighborhood violence in mediating the effects of neighborhood disadvantage on high school graduation and teenage pregnancy. Results show that neighborhood violence is a strong predictor of both outcomes, net of individual, family, community and school controls. Neighborhood violence…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Social Characteristics, Disadvantaged, Graduation
Transforming Symbolic Law into Organizational Action: Hate Crime Policy and Law Enforcement Practice
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Grattet, Ryken; Jenness, Valerie – Social Forces, 2008
For decades sociologists, criminologists, political scientists and socio-legal scholars alike have focused on the symbolic and instrumental dimensions of law in examinations of the effects of social reform and policy implementation. Following in this tradition, we focus on the relationship between hate crime policy and hate crime reporting to…
Descriptors: Crime, Social Action, Law Enforcement, Social Change
Social Cohesion, Criminal Victimization and Perceived Risk of Crime in Brazilian Neighborhoods
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Villarreal, Andres; Silva, Braulio F.A. – Social Forces, 2006
Ecological theories linking community characteristics to the level of crime have rarely been tested outside the context of the United States and Western Europe. In this study we examine the effects of social cohesion and neighborhood disorder on crime using data from a survey of neighborhoods in Brazil. We find that lower-income neighborhoods,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Victims of Crime, Community Characteristics, Urban Areas
Social Capital and Adolescent Violent Behavior: Correlates of Fighting and Weapon Use among Secondary School Students
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Wright, Darlene R.; Fitzpatrick, Kevin M. – Social Forces, 2006
This study explores the relationship between social capital and adolescent violent behaviors for a national sample of secondary school students (N = 4,834). Cross-sectional data from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health were used to evaluate multivariate models examining the family school and neighborhood correlates of violent…
Descriptors: Violence, Adolescents, Social Capital, Secondary School Students