The Impact of Crime on Communities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9765231 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert B Taylor (0000-0002-7116-4796, corresponding author), Ralph B Taylor |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 539 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-45 |
| Publication date | 1995-05-01 |
| 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 | 10.1177/0002716295539001003 |
| OpenAlex | W1985469863 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 60 |
| References cited | 48 |
CT: Current wisdom suggests that high or increasing crime levels make communities decline. Researchers usually translate decline to mean an increasing desire to move or higher actual mobility of residents; weaker attachments of residents to, and satisfaction with, their neighborhood; less local involvement; and lower house values. Empirical research confirms only some of this wisdom. Crime relates as expected to house prices, neighborhood satisfaction, and the desire to move. But research simultaneously suggests that crime neither spurs mobility nor necessarily decreases local involvement. Past research fails to differentiate the impacts of specific crime rates and does not examine impacts of static versus changing crime rates. This article examines impacts of past and changing crime levels on changes in relative house values and vacancy rates in Baltimore, Maryland, neighborhoods in the 1970s. The results reveal that different crimes influence different aspects of the housing market. Past and changing crime rates play roles in ecological transitions of neighbor-hoods. In keeping with the current findings of contingent impacts of racial change on mobility, I suggest that impacts of crime and related problems on neighborhood viability may be contingent on personal, historical, and locale-specific factors
Crime prevention · Crime rate · Criminology · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Locale (computer software · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
The Effects of Local Stressors on Neighborhood Attachment
Crime Prevention in High-Rise Housing
The Effects of Immigrant Concentration on Changes in Neighborhood Crime Rates
Crime and Residential Choice
Impacts of Crime on Socio-Economic Development
Does money laundering inflate residential house prices? Evidence from the Italian provincial markets
Calls and Neighborhood Attributes
The aspirational creative class
Assessing the potential benefits of community-based violence reduction efforts on clearance rates
Violent Crime, Mobility Decisions, and Neighborhood Racial/Ethnic Transition
Place attachment in a revitalizing neighborhood
The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Informal Social Control and Crime
Moving out and moving on
Validity of a scale of neighbourhood informal social control relevant to pre-schoolers’ physical activity
Problems & Prospects Revisited
Contemporary neighborhood housing dynamics in a mid-sized US city
Examining social cohesion and victimization in a Malaysian multiethnic neighborhood
Making or Breaking Neighborhoods
Assessing beneficiaries’ needs and expectations as a determinant of residential satisfaction in South Africa
Policing now, Gentrification Later? The Case of Civil Gang Injunctions in Los Angeles
Adolescents' sense of community and feeling of unsafety in the urban environment
Is Fear of Crime Mainly Social and Economic Insecurity in Disguise? A Multilevel Multinational Analysis
Where concerned citizens perceive police as more responsive to troublesome teen groups
The impact of crime on apartment prices
Crime in Urban Post-Disaster Environments
Violence Change and Cohort Trajectories
Towards an Understanding of ‘Fear’ as an Intangible Cost of Crime
Effect of crime on housing tenure
Reassurance or reason for concern
Neighborhood Change and Crime in the Modern Metropolis
The Privatization of Public Services in American Cities
Old age and fear of crime
Crime and private investment in urban neighborhoods
Predicting Perceived Risk of Crime
Factorial structure of the Perceived Neighborhood Scale (PNS)
Public housing and the fear of crime
Fear of crime and criminal victimization
Spatial spillover effects of crime on private investment at nearby micro-places
What Makes People Dissatisfied with their Neighbourhoods
Happy People in Mixed-up Places
Home Foreclosures and Community Crime
Fear of Crime and Feelings of Unsafety in European Countries
Neighborhood Ethnic Composition and Resident Perceptions of Safety in European Countries
Usual suspects? Public views about immigrants’ impact on crime in European countries
Seeing” Minorities and Perceptions of Disorder
Extending Social Disorganization Theory
Neighborhood Housing Investments and Violent Crime in Seattle, 1981–2007
Controlling Drug and Disorder Problems
Escaping Crime
The Reproduction of Racial Inequality
Ghettos, Thresholds, and Crime
The Role of Crime in Housing Unit Racial/Ethnic Transition
Neighbourhood Housing Dynamics and Crime Interactions
Accounting for Feedback Effects in Neighbourhoods and Crime Research
Are Hispanics the new 'Threat'? Minority group threat and fear of crime in Miami-Dade County
Criminal Victimization and Crime Risk Perception
Testing a Moderated Model of Satisfaction with Urban Living using Data for Brisbane-South East Queensland, Australia
Examining the Connection Between Housing Counseling Practices and Long-Term Housing and Neighborhood Satisfaction
A Child-Centered Scale of Informal Social Control for Latino Parents of Preschool-Age Children
Immigrants and Social Distance
Urban Danger
Residential mobility, migration, and metropolitan change
Neighborhoods and Crime
Neighborhood Politics
Residential Problems, Dissatisfaction, and Mobility
Human Territorial Functioning
Disorder and Decline
Racial Differences in Neighborhood Evaluation Standards
Gentrification and Crime
Explaining Racial Differences
Paths of neighborhood change
Valuation of education and crime neighborhood characteristics through hedonic housing prices
Community Careers in Crime
Urban Neighborhoods
Utility changes in housing and neighborhood services for households moving into and out of distressed neighborhoods
Neighborhood racial change, segregationist sentiments, and affirmative marketing policies
A micro model of the criminal's location choice
Gentrification and crime
Local crime as a natural hazard
Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks
Attachment to place
Crime as an environmental stressor
Constraints, Satisfaction and Residential Mobility
Interjurisdictional Criminal Mobility
White Flight from Racially Integrated Neighbourhoods in the 1970s
A Note on the Cost of Crime to Victims
The Impact of Crime on Urban Residential Property Values
A Von Thünen Model of Crime, Casinos and Property Values in New Jersey
Neighborhood Changes in Ecology and Violence
Citizen Participation in Neighborhood Crime Prevention
Impact of directly and indirectly experienced events
Social Disorganization and Theories of Crime and Delinquency
Central City White Flight
Issues in the Ecological Study of Delinquency
Suburban Status Instability
Crime and Racial Composition in Contiguous Communities as Negative Externalities
Juvenile Delinquency and Social Areas
Neighborhood Selection and Residential Segregation
The Ecology of Chicago
| Unique citing works | 60 |
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| Citations per year | 2,14 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2025 (28) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 59 |