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- Title
Institutional Access, Residential Segregation, and Urban Black Homicide.
- Authors
Lee, Matthew R.; Ousey, Graham C.
- Abstract
Sociologists have frequently cited the importance of the local institutional base for bolstering social organization and control, and ultimately reducing crime rates. Local noneconomic institutions may be particularly relevant to controlling urban Black crime rates, because in the face of limited access to the legitimate labor force, access to institutions such as churches and civic organizations helps to extend social networks, increase civic engagement, transmit mainstream norms, and provide a forum from which to address community problems. This analysis examines the links between measures of access to such noneconomic institutions and Black homicide rates for a sample of large urban areas circa 1990. The results indicate that after controlling for socioeconomic disadvantage, racial inequality and various other relevant measures, institutional access is negatively associated with Black homicide rates. However, this violence constraining impact appears to be most dramatic in urban areas where Blacks are most highly segregated from Whites. Implications of these results are discussed.
- Subjects
SOCIOLOGISTS; SOCIAL structure; SOCIAL control; SOCIAL conflict; CRIME; SOCIAL problems; SOCIAL networks
- Publication
Sociological Inquiry, 2005, Vol 75, Issue 1, p31
- ISSN
0038-0245
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1475-682X.2005.00111.x