Crime, housing tenure, and economic deprivation

Evidence from Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12066390
AutoresScott W Hegerty (0000-0002-0999-561X, Northeastern Illinois University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen39
Número8
Páginas1103-1121
Fecha de publicación2017-05-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Urban Affairs (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0735-2166 • E-ISSN: 1467-9906
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07352166.2017.1305815
OpenAlexW2613193720
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas24

This study examines the determinants of 6 types of crime in Milwaukee, a Rust Belt city that has experienced significant deindustrialization in recent decades. Inner-city areas, as well as a unique low-density area on the city’s northwest side with many rental units, might lack the social control necessary to reduce crime. Creating an index of deprivation at the block group level for 2014, we find it to be high in the central city and on the northwest side and correlated with crime, income, and other socioeconomic variables. Crime hot spots, with a few notable exceptions, are located in 2 central-city areas that are poorer and less White than other block groups. A spatial lag regression model shows that deprivation primarily drives arson and assaults, and the share of renters is shown to increase thefts and robberies in low-income areas but not high-income areas

Business · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Housing Market and Economics · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies