Crime and U.S. Cities
Recent Patterns and Implications
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9754409 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ingrid Gould Ellen (0000-0002-6127-633X, New York University's (NYU's) Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, corresponding author), Katherine M O’regan (New York University), Katherine O'Regan (Public and Nonprofit Management Program at the Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 626 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 22-38 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716209343547 |
| OpenAlex | W2166532581 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 15 |
Crime fell substantially in the United States between the early 1990s and 2005. This article examines the size and nature of crime reductions that occurred in cities and their surrounding suburbs and identifies the characteristics of cities experiencing greater declines. The authors then explore two questions: how these changes altered existing disparities in safety (or exposure to crime) among particular groups and the extent to which these reductions increased the relative attractiveness of cities and ultimately led to city growth. The authors find that reductions in crime contributed to the ability of cities to retain households that might otherwise have moved to the suburbs, although the measurable impact on overall city growth is modest at best. Additionally, reductions in crime clearly changed the geography of crime and dramatically reshaped differential exposure to crime among demographic groups. At the city and neighborhood level, the authors find that the distribution of crime reductions was highly “progressive,” disproportionately benefiting historically disadvantaged groups
Attractiveness · Crime prevention · Criminology · Demographic economics · Differential (mechanical device · Disadvantaged · Distribution (mathematics · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Violent crime · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Demography · Housing Market and Economics · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
Factors Explaining the Spatial Agglomeration of the Creative Class
Spatial Foundations of Inequality
Understanding the Crime Gap
An International Crime Decline
Urban Growth and Housing Affordability
Violence and Neighborhood Disadvantage after the Crime Decline
Buying Beyoncé
Community and the Crime Decline
Race, Crime, and the Changing Fortunes of Urban Neighborhoods, 1999-2013
Smart Cities
Crime, Urban Flight, and the Consequences for Cities
Consumer city
The flight to the suburbs of population and employment, 1960–1970
Metropolitan suburbanization and central city problems
Residential mobility between cities and suburbs
Urban Resurgence and the Consumer City
An Econometric Model of the Flight to the Suburbs
Racial Differences in Exposure to Crime
Violent-Crime Rates and Racial Composition
Central City White Flight
Race and Violent Crime in the Suburbs
The Causes of Metropolitan Suburbanization
Suburbanization and Central-City Crime Rates
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,53 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2018 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |