Making or Breaking Neighborhoods

Vélez, María B.; Lyons, Christopher J.

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“…Most place-and space-based theories of crime identify poverty and inequality as one significant part of understanding crime distributions. However, not many of these theories incorporate an understanding of the production, reproduction, and distribution of inequalities under capitalism (Carlson & Michalowski, 1997;Chambliss, 1975;Lynch, 2013;Lynch & Boggess, 2012;Vélez & Lyons, 2014 criminology and critical geographic studies of crime call for the incorporation of the political economy into analyses to better understand how capitalism affects crime distributions.…”

Section: Theoretical Contributions and Future Directions: Economic And Political Control Within The Built Environmentmentioning

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A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography

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2021

Sociology Compass

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This paper provides a comprehensive review of space-and place-based criminology, with a focus on the relationship between crime, the built environment, land use, and/or physical geography, through sociological and critical geography lenses. An historical overview of major criminological and spatial theories and contributors is presented before examining the current state of the field. In honor of critical geography's goal to be "a people's geography," 1 this paper aims to be an accessible overview of space-and placebased criminological research, especially for readers who are unfamiliar with these topics.

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Section: Theoretical Contributions and Future Directions: Economic And Political Control Within The Built Environmentmentioning

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A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography

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2021

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“…Public social control refers to the relationship between neighborhoods and private or governmental entities. These ties bring about policies or resources that can make or break a neighborhood (Vélez and Lyons, 2014). I spotlight a couple of private and public “actors” that are particularly relevant for the racial and ethnic patterning of crime.…”

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An Elaboration and Critique of “Reassessing ‘Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality’”

Vélez

2018

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In the prior article in this volume, Robert Sampson and colleagues (2018) take theoretical and empirical stock of a framework they presented twenty years ago. They find broad empirical support for its core tenets. Differences in disadvantage explain most, if not all, observed gaps in violent crime between Black and White neighborhoods; disadvantage also operates similarly to foster crime in Black and White areas. The authors also lament the limited research on the key intervening mechanism of community social organization, particularly its cultural and political sources, that links disadvantage to crime. I have two primary goals in commenting on this article. First, in keeping with their assessment, I provide my take on their agenda for extending the framework beyond the Black-White divide, giving greater attention to the political sources of community social organization, and considering reciprocal relationships between crime, race, and disadvantage. Second, I elaborate on how my views differ from Sampson and colleagues’ regarding strategies to empirically validate the racial invariance thesis, the breadth of support for the thesis beyond its core tenets, and the role of culture. I provide these critiques to encourage further work exploring the explanatory power of Sampson and colleagues’ thesis, and, to thereby foster a better understanding of enduring inequities in violent crime between racialized minority populations and Whites. Without their ecologically-based approach, we run the risk of essentializing minorities as criminogenic, like recent work espousing cultural (devoid of structural) and biological (devoid of social) explanations for the race-crime link.

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Neighborhood Fixer Uppers: Do Home Improvement Loans Influence Crime Across Race and over Time?

2022

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Making or Breaking Neighborhoods

Cited by 17 publications

References 39 publications

A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography

A comprehensive review of quantitative research on crime, the built environment, land use, and physical geography

An Elaboration and Critique of “Reassessing ‘Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality’”

Neighborhood Fixer Uppers: Do Home Improvement Loans Influence Crime Across Race and over Time?

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