JUVENILE GUN CRIME AND SOCIAL STRESS: BALTIMORE, 1980–1990

Autor:	Andrea Powell, Keith D. Harries
Rok vydání:	1994
Předmět:	Urban Studies Social stress Decile Frontier Inner city Geography Planning and Development Juvenile Sociology Criminology Census Social issues Spatial relationship
Zdroj:	Urban Geography. 15:45-63
ISSN:	1938-2847 0272-3638
DOI:	10.2747/0272-3638.15.1.45
Popis:	Violence, particularly among minority youths, is a perennial social problem widely regarded as synonymous with the inner city. This analysis examines 2, 639 juvenile gun crimes reported to the police in an 11-year period, 1980-1990, in Baltimore, Maryland. Attention focuses on patterns of selected categories of gun crimes and their relationship to a generalized areal measure of social stress. Salient findings were temporal persistence of pattern; close spatial relationship between gun crimes and (predominantly African-American) census tracts at or above the 8th decile in terms of a social stress index; the territorial nature of gun crimes; and a “frontier” effect with respect to gun crimes with black offenders and white victims. Applications of this analysis to violence prevention are discussed.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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