It’s easy to blame the parents when kids get in trouble, but it’s the neighborhood that matters more.
“Neighborhoods and Self-Control: Toward an Expanded Version of Socialization”
Brent Teasdale and Eric Silver
Social Problems, 56(1)
Anti-black hate crimes tend to happen in homogenous white neighborhoods, while anti-white hate crimes happen in mixed-race areas.
“Defending Turf: Racial Demographics and Hate Crime Against Blacks and Whites ”
Christopher J. Lyons
Social Forces, Vol, p.XX
Because drug networks in Portugal are heavily familial, Portuguese prisons are increasingly characterized by family networks.
“Closed Circuits: Kinship, neighborhood and incarceration in urban Portugal”
Manuela Ivone P. da Cunha
Ethnography, 9:3, pp.325-350
Rising minority populations in a neighborhood can lead to a “white flight” out of the neighborhood. However, increasing diversity in neighboring neighborhoods can cause whites to flee a neighborhood as well.
“Spatial Dynamics of White Flight: The Effects of Local and Extralocal Racial Conditions on Neighborhood Out-Migration.e”
Kyle Crowder and Scott J. South.
American Sociological Review, 73:5, pp.792-812
After hurricanes hit neighborhoods, they are rebuilt into wealthier neighborhoods, forcing out the original residents.
“Places as Recovery Machines: Vulnerability and Neighborhood Change After Major Hurricanes.”
Jeremy F. Pais and James R. Elliot.
Social Forces, 86:4, p.1415-1453.
The more people move, the more likely they are to be victims of crime.
“The Effects Of Residential Turnover On Household Victimization”
Min Xie and David McDowall
Criminology, 46:3, p539-575.
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