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- Title
Racial Segregation, the Concentration of Disadvantage, and Black and White Homicide Victimization.
- Authors
Peterson, Ruth D.; Krivo, Lauren J.
- Abstract
Discriminatory housing market practices have created and reinforced patterns of racial residential segregation throughout the United States. Such segregation has racist consequences too. Residential segregation increases the concentration of disadvantage for blacks but not whites, creating African-American residential environments that heighten social problems including violence within the black population. At the same time, segregation protects white residential environments from these dire consequences. This hypothesized racially inequitable process is tested for one important type of violence-homicide. We examine race-specific models of lethal violence that distinguish residential segregation from the concentration of disadvantage within racial groups. Data are from the Censuses of Population and Federal Bureau of Investigation's homicide incidence files for U.S. large central cities for 1980 and 1990. Our perspective finds support in the empirical analyses. Segregation has an important effect on black but not white killings, with the impact of segregation on African-American homicides explained by concentrated disadvantage.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HOUSING policy; URBAN planning; SOCIAL policy; NATIONAL security; HOUSING market
- Publication
Sociological Forum, 1999, Vol 14, Issue 3, p465
- ISSN
0884-8971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1023/A:1021451703612