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COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENT, AND VIOLENT CRIME
Author(s) -
BLOCK RICHARD
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1979.tb01275.x
Subject(s) - homicide , violent crime , criminology , geography , demography , demographic economics , socioeconomics , psychology , sociology , human factors and ergonomics , poison control , environmental health , economics , medicine
Using regression analysis of community areas of Chicago, patterns of homicide, robbery, and aggravated assault are analyzed for the mid‐1970s. It is found that neighborhoods in which very poor and middle‐class people live in close proximity are those in which rates of all three types of criminal violence are highest. Of all demographic and crime variables analyzed, proximity was by far the most strongly related to crime rates. This relationship was taken to be another indicator of the extreme burden placed on blacks in heavily segregated cities of the urban North.