Juvenile Gun Crime and Social Stress
Baltimore, 1980–1990
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11670336 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keith D Harries (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, corresponding author), Keith Harries (University of Maryland, Baltimore County), Andrea Powell (0000-0003-4455-5131, b Women's Housing Coalition, Inc., 119 E. 25th Street Baltimore, MD 21218) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 45-63 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.2747/0272-3638.15.1.45 |
| OpenAlex | W2085244050 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 17 |
Violence, particularly among minority youths, is a perennial social problem widely regarded as synonymous with the inner city. This analysis examines 2, 639 juvenile gun crimes reported to the police in an 11-year period, 1980-1990, in Baltimore, Maryland. Attention focuses on patterns of selected categories of gun crimes and their relationship to a generalized areal measure of social stress. Salient findings were temporal persistence of pattern; close spatial relationship between gun crimes and (predominantly African-American) census tracts at or above the 8th decile in terms of a social stress index; the territorial nature of gun crimes; and a “frontier” effect with respect to gun crimes with black offenders and white victims. Applications of this analysis to violence prevention are discussed
Criminology · Gun violence · Injury prevention · Medical emergency · Poison control · Sociology · Violent crime · White (mutation · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Demography · Gun Ownership and Violence Research · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine
Crime, space, and society
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Mapping Crime in Its Community Setting
Understanding and Preventing Violence
Toward a Developmental Criminology
Race, Place, and Risk
Single Mothers, the Underclass, and Social Policy
The Underclass
An Empirical Test of General Strain Theory
Turning Points in the Life Course
Hot Spots of Predatory Crime
Social Change and Crime Rate Trends
Misspeaking Truth to Power
The Ecology of Inequality
Urban Black Violence
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2004 (8) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |