Lesley Williams Reid
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 87901 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Lesley Williams Reid |
| PRENOMES | Lesley Williams |
| SOBRENOME | Reid |
| ASSINATURA | REID L W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Georgia State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1998 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
New Directions in Research on Immigration, Crime, Law, and Justice
From the early twentieth century onward, research has found little to no support for a positive association between immigration and crime (Hayford 1911). In fact, much available research finds the opposite; more immigration leads to less crime. While the scholarly community has largely debunked as myth the idea that more immigrants lead to more crime, there remain many questions about the nature of the relationship between immigration and crime. …
Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration
Research has shown little support for the enduring proposition that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Although classical criminological and neoclassical economic theories would predict immigration to increase crime, most empirical research shows quite the opposite. We investigate the immigration-crime relationship among metropolitan areas over a 40 year period from 1970 to 2010. Our goal is to describe the ongoing a…
Communities and Crime
Atlanta's Last Demolitions and Relocations
Using data from an Atlanta-based longitudinal study following 311 public housing residents relocated between 2009 and 2010 as the city's housing authority demolished its remaining public housing, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between changes in relocated residents' satisfaction with home and neighborhood and the socioeconomic, racial composition, and crime characteristics of their destination neighborhood. Consistent wi…
Public housing relocations in Atlanta
Getting Ahead
The Poverty Deconcentration Imperative and Public Housing Transformation
Public housing has been on the chopping block for almost two decades now in an effort to deconcentrate poverty. In 1992 the federal government created the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) VI program. HOPE VI is driven by the assumption that deconcentrating neighborhood‐level poverty will yield better access to upward mobility opportunities for former public housing residents. To accomplish this, existing public housing is demoli…
The Measurement of Suburban Sprawl
We review and analyze how suburban sprawl has been conceptualized and measured in recent urban research. We find that indexes created to measure sprawl in metropolitan areas do so in three different ways. Some measures are based on residential population density, others specifically measure the extent of job or employment sprawl, and others consider sprawl a multidimensional land use phenomenon (and provide separate indexes for each dimension). O…
Unequal Crime Decline
Disaggregating the Effects of Racial and Economic Inequality on Early Twentieth-Century Execution Rates
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5020, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5020, USA E-mail: [email protected]
Immigrant Settlement Patterns
Immigration continues to change the social, economic, and political landscapes of urban America. Consequently, scholars, as well as the general public, are interested in the internal migration patterns of immigrants. In this research, we identify and explain the characteristics of metropolitan areas that have the strongest effects on the percentage change in the foreign-born population between 1990 and 2000. Using lagged independent variables and…
Women, Race, and Ethnicity
We draw on leading theories about the structural causes of inequality in the United States to explore inter–metropolitan differences in average earnings for white, black, Hispanic, and Asian women. Our analysis utilizes 2000 census data for a sample of 150 metropolitan areas to investigate the determinants of both women's median earnings and earnings’ inequality by race and ethnicity. We find substantial differences between the earnings of minori…
Jobs, Poverty, and Earnings in American Metropolises
We contribute to the debate about the effects of immigration in the United States by analyzing the impact of recent (1980-2000) immigration on the economic outcomes of African Americans. We use Census 2000 data for a sample of 150 U.S. metropolitan areas to examine these outcomes. Our findings indicate that after controlling for a variety of theoretically relevant control variables, increases in recent immigration decrease labor force non-partici…
Low-Quality Employment Concentration and Crime
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have investigated the effects of employment quality on crime. Many of these studies have investigated employment quality with regard to its effect on individual criminality. However, the quality of employment available in a labor market also affects crime at an aggregate level of analysis. Consequently, while the determinants of individual behavior are important, this article seeks to place these behavi…
The immigration-crime relationship
The Gender Gap in Fear
In this research we explore the interaction between gender and perceived risk of victimization on levels of fear of crime. Much of the previous research on the effects of gender on fear of crime assumes that crimes are not gendered and that the effects of gender would operate the same regardless of type of crime. Challenging this assumption, we examine crimes that disproportionately victimize women or men. We find that there is greater nuance in …
Black-White Income Inequality and Metropolitan Socioeconomic Structure
We draw on leading theories about the structural causes of racial inequality in the US to investigate inter-metropolitan differences in white and black per capita income. The analysis, which is based on a sample of 112 metropolitan areas and uses 1990 census data, examines the influence of spatial, economic, and demographic factors on black-white income inequality. Our results show severe income inequality between blacks and whites in most metrop…
Integrating Economic Dualism and Labor Market Segmentation
Although the U.S. economy of the early twenty-first century is vastly different from the U.S. economy prior to the 1970s, the nature of these economic changes and their impact on U.S. workers is unclear. This article claims that despite contemporary economic shifts, differential labor and employer power continues to segment the economy, and workers' position in the labor market continues to predict their rewards, beyond the effects of gender, rac…
Integrating Economic Dualism and Labor Market Segmentation
Although the U.S. economy 01 the early twenty-first century is vastly different from the US. economy prior to the 1970s: the nature of these economic changes and their impact on US. workers is unclear. This article claims that despite contemporary eco-nomic shifts. differential labor and employer power continues to segment the econ-omy, and workers ' position in the labor market continues to predict their rewards. beyond the effects of gender, ra…
The Economic Dimensions of Crime
The Drugs—Guns Relationship
The relationship between the onset of drug use and the onset of criminality is an ongoing debate in criminology. This study adds to this debate by examining the effect of the age of onset of minor criminal behavior and substance abuse on later hard-drug use and criminal gun use. I use discrete-time event history models to examine the degree to which the onset of marijuana and alcohol use, as well as the onset of less serious forms of criminal inv…
The Status of Children in the United States
As greater levels of responsibility for the well - being of children are shifted from the federal government to state governments , it is increasingly imperative that we understand the implications of such shifts . High levels of interstate inequality continue to exist and are arguably increasing . One manifestation of this inequality is the significant disparity between levels of state spending on youth - specific services . This article examine…
Fear of Crime and Collective Action
Recent research addressing fear of crime largely concerns the causes of that fear; this article expands our understanding of fear of crime by examining whether people cope with their fear individually or collectively. Our guiding questions were two: Do coping strategies differ by those individual-level characteristics established in the fear-of-crime literature? And do strategies differ based upon conceptually distinct types of fear? This researc…
The immigration-crime relationship
The Gender Gap in Fear
In this research we explore the interaction between gender and perceived risk of victimization on levels of fear of crime. Much of the previous research on the effects of gender on fear of crime assumes that crimes are not gendered and that the effects of gender would operate the same regardless of type of crime. Challenging this assumption, we examine crimes that disproportionately victimize women or men. We find that there is greater nuance in …
Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration
Research has shown little support for the enduring proposition that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Although classical criminological and neoclassical economic theories would predict immigration to increase crime, most empirical research shows quite the opposite. We investigate the immigration-crime relationship among metropolitan areas over a 40 year period from 1970 to 2010. Our goal is to describe the ongoing a…
Integrating Economic Dualism and Labor Market Segmentation
Although the U.S. economy 01 the early twenty-first century is vastly different from the US. economy prior to the 1970s: the nature of these economic changes and their impact on US. workers is unclear. This article claims that despite contemporary eco-nomic shifts. differential labor and employer power continues to segment the econ-omy, and workers ' position in the labor market continues to predict their rewards. beyond the effects of gender, ra…
Black-White Income Inequality and Metropolitan Socioeconomic Structure
We draw on leading theories about the structural causes of racial inequality in the US to investigate inter-metropolitan differences in white and black per capita income. The analysis, which is based on a sample of 112 metropolitan areas and uses 1990 census data, examines the influence of spatial, economic, and demographic factors on black-white income inequality. Our results show severe income inequality between blacks and whites in most metrop…
Public housing relocations in Atlanta
Jobs, Poverty, and Earnings in American Metropolises
We contribute to the debate about the effects of immigration in the United States by analyzing the impact of recent (1980-2000) immigration on the economic outcomes of African Americans. We use Census 2000 data for a sample of 150 U.S. metropolitan areas to examine these outcomes. Our findings indicate that after controlling for a variety of theoretically relevant control variables, increases in recent immigration decrease labor force non-partici…
Getting Ahead
Fear of Crime and Collective Action
Recent research addressing fear of crime largely concerns the causes of that fear; this article expands our understanding of fear of crime by examining whether people cope with their fear individually or collectively. Our guiding questions were two: Do coping strategies differ by those individual-level characteristics established in the fear-of-crime literature? And do strategies differ based upon conceptually distinct types of fear? This researc…
The Measurement of Suburban Sprawl
We review and analyze how suburban sprawl has been conceptualized and measured in recent urban research. We find that indexes created to measure sprawl in metropolitan areas do so in three different ways. Some measures are based on residential population density, others specifically measure the extent of job or employment sprawl, and others consider sprawl a multidimensional land use phenomenon (and provide separate indexes for each dimension). O…
Immigrant Settlement Patterns
Immigration continues to change the social, economic, and political landscapes of urban America. Consequently, scholars, as well as the general public, are interested in the internal migration patterns of immigrants. In this research, we identify and explain the characteristics of metropolitan areas that have the strongest effects on the percentage change in the foreign-born population between 1990 and 2000. Using lagged independent variables and…
Atlanta's Last Demolitions and Relocations
Using data from an Atlanta-based longitudinal study following 311 public housing residents relocated between 2009 and 2010 as the city's housing authority demolished its remaining public housing, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between changes in relocated residents' satisfaction with home and neighborhood and the socioeconomic, racial composition, and crime characteristics of their destination neighborhood. Consistent wi…
The Poverty Deconcentration Imperative and Public Housing Transformation
Public housing has been on the chopping block for almost two decades now in an effort to deconcentrate poverty. In 1992 the federal government created the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) VI program. HOPE VI is driven by the assumption that deconcentrating neighborhood‐level poverty will yield better access to upward mobility opportunities for former public housing residents. To accomplish this, existing public housing is demoli…
Low-Quality Employment Concentration and Crime
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have investigated the effects of employment quality on crime. Many of these studies have investigated employment quality with regard to its effect on individual criminality. However, the quality of employment available in a labor market also affects crime at an aggregate level of analysis. Consequently, while the determinants of individual behavior are important, this article seeks to place these behavi…
Women, Race, and Ethnicity
We draw on leading theories about the structural causes of inequality in the United States to explore inter–metropolitan differences in average earnings for white, black, Hispanic, and Asian women. Our analysis utilizes 2000 census data for a sample of 150 metropolitan areas to investigate the determinants of both women's median earnings and earnings’ inequality by race and ethnicity. We find substantial differences between the earnings of minori…
The Economic Dimensions of Crime
Fear of Crime and Collective Action
Recent research addressing fear of crime largely concerns the causes of that fear; this article expands our understanding of fear of crime by examining whether people cope with their fear individually or collectively. Our guiding questions were two: Do coping strategies differ by those individual-level characteristics established in the fear-of-crime literature? And do strategies differ based upon conceptually distinct types of fear? This researc…
The Status of Children in the United States
As greater levels of responsibility for the well - being of children are shifted from the federal government to state governments , it is increasingly imperative that we understand the implications of such shifts . High levels of interstate inequality continue to exist and are arguably increasing . One manifestation of this inequality is the significant disparity between levels of state spending on youth - specific services . This article examine…
The Drugs—Guns Relationship
The relationship between the onset of drug use and the onset of criminality is an ongoing debate in criminology. This study adds to this debate by examining the effect of the age of onset of minor criminal behavior and substance abuse on later hard-drug use and criminal gun use. I use discrete-time event history models to examine the degree to which the onset of marijuana and alcohol use, as well as the onset of less serious forms of criminal inv…
The Economic Dimensions of Crime
Black-White Income Inequality and Metropolitan Socioeconomic Structure
We draw on leading theories about the structural causes of racial inequality in the US to investigate inter-metropolitan differences in white and black per capita income. The analysis, which is based on a sample of 112 metropolitan areas and uses 1990 census data, examines the influence of spatial, economic, and demographic factors on black-white income inequality. Our results show severe income inequality between blacks and whites in most metrop…
Integrating Economic Dualism and Labor Market Segmentation
Although the U.S. economy of the early twenty-first century is vastly different from the U.S. economy prior to the 1970s, the nature of these economic changes and their impact on U.S. workers is unclear. This article claims that despite contemporary economic shifts, differential labor and employer power continues to segment the economy, and workers' position in the labor market continues to predict their rewards, beyond the effects of gender, rac…
Integrating Economic Dualism and Labor Market Segmentation
Although the U.S. economy 01 the early twenty-first century is vastly different from the US. economy prior to the 1970s: the nature of these economic changes and their impact on US. workers is unclear. This article claims that despite contemporary eco-nomic shifts. differential labor and employer power continues to segment the econ-omy, and workers ' position in the labor market continues to predict their rewards. beyond the effects of gender, ra…
The Gender Gap in Fear
In this research we explore the interaction between gender and perceived risk of victimization on levels of fear of crime. Much of the previous research on the effects of gender on fear of crime assumes that crimes are not gendered and that the effects of gender would operate the same regardless of type of crime. Challenging this assumption, we examine crimes that disproportionately victimize women or men. We find that there is greater nuance in …
Jobs, Poverty, and Earnings in American Metropolises
We contribute to the debate about the effects of immigration in the United States by analyzing the impact of recent (1980-2000) immigration on the economic outcomes of African Americans. We use Census 2000 data for a sample of 150 U.S. metropolitan areas to examine these outcomes. Our findings indicate that after controlling for a variety of theoretically relevant control variables, increases in recent immigration decrease labor force non-partici…
Low-Quality Employment Concentration and Crime
Over the past two decades, numerous studies have investigated the effects of employment quality on crime. Many of these studies have investigated employment quality with regard to its effect on individual criminality. However, the quality of employment available in a labor market also affects crime at an aggregate level of analysis. Consequently, while the determinants of individual behavior are important, this article seeks to place these behavi…
The immigration-crime relationship
Women, Race, and Ethnicity
We draw on leading theories about the structural causes of inequality in the United States to explore inter–metropolitan differences in average earnings for white, black, Hispanic, and Asian women. Our analysis utilizes 2000 census data for a sample of 150 metropolitan areas to investigate the determinants of both women's median earnings and earnings’ inequality by race and ethnicity. We find substantial differences between the earnings of minori…
Disaggregating the Effects of Racial and Economic Inequality on Early Twentieth-Century Execution Rates
Department of Sociology, Georgia State University, P.O. Box 5020, Atlanta, GA, 30302-5020, USA E-mail: [email protected]
Immigrant Settlement Patterns
Immigration continues to change the social, economic, and political landscapes of urban America. Consequently, scholars, as well as the general public, are interested in the internal migration patterns of immigrants. In this research, we identify and explain the characteristics of metropolitan areas that have the strongest effects on the percentage change in the foreign-born population between 1990 and 2000. Using lagged independent variables and…
The Measurement of Suburban Sprawl
We review and analyze how suburban sprawl has been conceptualized and measured in recent urban research. We find that indexes created to measure sprawl in metropolitan areas do so in three different ways. Some measures are based on residential population density, others specifically measure the extent of job or employment sprawl, and others consider sprawl a multidimensional land use phenomenon (and provide separate indexes for each dimension). O…
Unequal Crime Decline
The Poverty Deconcentration Imperative and Public Housing Transformation
Public housing has been on the chopping block for almost two decades now in an effort to deconcentrate poverty. In 1992 the federal government created the Housing Opportunities for People Everywhere (HOPE) VI program. HOPE VI is driven by the assumption that deconcentrating neighborhood‐level poverty will yield better access to upward mobility opportunities for former public housing residents. To accomplish this, existing public housing is demoli…
Getting Ahead
Atlanta's Last Demolitions and Relocations
Using data from an Atlanta-based longitudinal study following 311 public housing residents relocated between 2009 and 2010 as the city's housing authority demolished its remaining public housing, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between changes in relocated residents' satisfaction with home and neighborhood and the socioeconomic, racial composition, and crime characteristics of their destination neighborhood. Consistent wi…
Public housing relocations in Atlanta
Communities and Crime
Urban crime rates and the changing face of immigration
Research has shown little support for the enduring proposition that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Although classical criminological and neoclassical economic theories would predict immigration to increase crime, most empirical research shows quite the opposite. We investigate the immigration-crime relationship among metropolitan areas over a 40 year period from 1970 to 2010. Our goal is to describe the ongoing a…
New Directions in Research on Immigration, Crime, Law, and Justice
From the early twentieth century onward, research has found little to no support for a positive association between immigration and crime (Hayford 1911). In fact, much available research finds the opposite; more immigration leads to less crime. While the scholarly community has largely debunked as myth the idea that more immigrants lead to more crime, there remain many questions about the nature of the relationship between immigration and crime. …
Sociology (20 obras) · Economics (15 obras) · Demographic economics (14 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (13 obras) · Metropolitan area (12 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Geography (11 obras) · Criminology (10 obras) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 obras) · Demography (8 obras)