Community Disadvantage and Race-Specific Rates of Violent Crime
An Investigation into the “Racial Invariance” Hypothesis in the United Kingdom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7745109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Laurence (0009-0004-5200-6137) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 12 |
| Pages | 974-995 |
| Publication date | 2015-12-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Deviant Behavior (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0163-9625 • E-ISSN: 1521-0456 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01639625.2014.982749 |
| OpenAlex | W2194980689 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 32 |
Research into how structural disadvantage affects violent crime among racial groups has produced mixed results. In the United States, however, black and white community-level disadvantage distributions only partially overlap, precluding critical tests of the “racial invariance” hypothesis. We examine the relationship between race, violent crime, and disadvantage in the United Kingdom, where disadvantage distributions for race-groups have greater comparability. Using London borough-level data, we observe racial-invariance at comparably low/high disadvantage. However, at extreme disadvantage the effect increases significantly for black communities but not white or South Asian. This conflicts with studies demonstrating either racial invariance or weaker effects among blacks
Criminology · Disadvantage · Environmental health · Ethnic group · Homicide · Poison control · Political science · Race (biology · Racial composition · Sociology · Violent crime · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Demography · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Law · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,63 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |