Residential Redlining, Immigration, and Lethal Violence

Building on Du Bois's Perspective

Bibliographic Data

ID2969742
AuthorsJacob I Stowell, Ramiro Martínez
Year2025
Publication date2025-08-28
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRace and Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2153-3687 • E-ISSN: 2153-3687
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/21533687251360734
OpenAlexW4413783462
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited52

W.E.B. Du Bois argued that a focus on the opportunity structure available in a particular area was key to understanding why negative outcomes are more prevalent in some areas than others. We argue that the practice of residential redlining-discriminatory lending practices of the early 20th century-fundamentally altered the opportunities for conventional success present in neighborhoods thought to be the "riskiest." Scholarship indicates that formerly redlined areas are characterized by significantly higher levels of community and health-related outcomes, including levels of firearm violence and homicide. Using longitudinal analyses and consistently defined communities in Miami, Florida, between 1970 and 2010, we assess the effects of residential redlining on lethal violence. Our models include measures of immigration as a control for potentially mitigating influences on the effect of redlining. Consistent with prior research, our results indicate that levels of lethal violence are associated with a community having been redlined. Results also indicate that the observed "buffering" effect of immigration has a moderating influence on the effect of residential redlining, offering strong, though indirect, support for the immigration revitalization hypothesis

Art · Criminology · Immigration · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Law · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

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