Urban Crime + Racial Residential Segregation.

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...Barbara Babcock Inc., October 2000 Introduction The question posed: does urban crime increase,when or where, racial residential segregation exists? The unit of analysis is segregated neighborhoods. The independent variable is segregation of race. The dependent variable is violent crime levels. The urban neighborhood Over half of all homicides in the US occur in just 66 cities, with one-fourth of those homicides in only eight cities (FBI, 1994). These murders as concentrated violence, alone, could provide sufficient justification for suburban investment in long range planning through inner city crime prevention. If crime can be substantially prevented or reduced in our most desperate neighborhoods, the likelihood is that the same theories of prevention will apply in any neighborhood (Sherman ppg). Poverty infested conditions in a neighborhood isolate it just as much as the plague isolated diseased neighborhoods in the cities of medieval Europe. Those same conditions also attempt to invisibly...

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