City-Level Violent Crime Trends and Racial-Ethnic Income Inequality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21619331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kelsey Cundiff (0000-0001-8987-1571, University of Missouri–St. Louis, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 48-64 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1043-9862 • E-ISSN: 1552-5406 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10439862231189986 |
| OpenAlex | W4385459431 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Within the crime trends literature, there exist several notable studies that have examined the linkages between various economic measures and trends in violent and property crime. This research expands on that literature by examining whether and to what extent racial income gaps are related to changes in city-level crime. Pulling together data from the Uniform Crime Report, U.S. Census, and American Community Survey, this project focuses on homicide and violent crime trends of 73 cities from 2006 to 2020 and changes in city-level racial-ethnic income gaps. This study employs a series of multilevel longitudinal models to measure whether changes in this income gap, whether widening or constricting, are related to changes in rates of violent crime and homicide both within and between cities. Results find that changes in any of the racial-ethnic income gaps tested are not related to trends in violent crime and homicide within or between cities. However, the inclusion of the White-Hispanic income gap and total income gap explained sizable portions of the between-city and within-city rates of violence and homicide
Census · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economic inequality · Economics · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Geography · Homicide · Inequality · Poison control · Political science · Population · Property crime · Sociology · Suicide prevention · Violent crime · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Demography · Homelessness and Social Issues · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Crime and the American dream
Data Analysis Using Regression and Multilevel/Hierarchical Models
Inequality in Cities
The Influence of Crack Cocaine on Robbery, Burglary, and Homicide Rates
The Spirit Level
Hierarchical linear models
Juvenile Arrest and Later Economic Attainment
Losing Legitimacy
American Homicide
A Wealth of Inequalities
Violent victimization among males and economic conditions
Assessing Macro-Level Predictors and Theories of Crime
Incarceration risk, asset pricing, and black‐white wealth inequality
The Impact of Economic Conditions on Robbery and Property Crime
A Methodological Addition to the Cross‐national Empirical Literature on Social Structure and Homicide
Structural Conditions and Racial Homicide Patterns
Racial Inequality and Racially Disaggregated Homicide Rates
Trend and Deviation in Crime Rates
Inequality, Welfare State, and Homicide
Disparate Recoveries
Poverty Matters
The crime drop in comparative perspective
Social Disorganization and Theories of Crime and Delinquency
Social Structure and Anomie
Income inequality, poverty and crime across nations
The Cost of Inequality
Segregation and Poverty Concentration
Discrimination over the Life Course
Declining Violent Crime Rates in the 1990s
Decomposing the Black-White Wealth Gap
The Varying Effects of Incarceration, Conviction, and Arrest on Wealth Outcomes among Young Adults
Race, Wealth and Incarceration
Wealth Inequality in Black and White
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |