Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality

Sampson, Robert J.; Wilson, William Julius

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“…Wu 2004). The unequal housing access could give rise to the social isolation and ecological concentration of the truly disadvantaged, which, in turn, leads to further structural barriers that undermine social organizations and mobility as observed in Western cities (Sampson and Wilson 1995). In this section, we review these social and spatial implications of housing inequality in Chinese cities.…”

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Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Fang

Liu

Chen

2019

Journal of Planning Literature

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Within three decades, the urban housing reform in China has changed access to housing from a system of socialist administrative allocation to that of more market-dominated housing development and consumption. Researchers have studied the socioeconomic and spatial consequences of these profound transformations. This review focuses on China’s housing inequality literature in relation to the changing origins, spatial patterns, and recent policy responses. The article reveals the unique features of China’s transitional economy along with massive urbanization, in which housing inequalities are rooted in socialism and strengthened by institutional changes of a state-led market economy.

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Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Fang

Liu

Chen

2019

Journal of Planning Literature

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“…In this study, 13% of IPH victims were employed at the time of the offense compared with 32% of non-IPH victims (Leth, 2009). Other studies identified that this kind of victim in IPH tended to be more tolerant of violence (Sampson & Wilson, 1995). In other previous studies, social disadvantage and chronic substance abuse have also been identified as risk factors for the victim of IPH (Jones-Webb & Wall, 2008).…”

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Characteristics of Intimate Partner Homicide in China: Compared With Previous Studies in Other Countries

Zhao

2019

Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

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Advancing towards modernization and urbanization, China is currently witnessing a soaring increase in intimate partner homicide (IPH). The present study sought to explore the characteristics of IPHs in China. Data from 979 judgments of this lethal serious crime were analyzed. In comparison with studies from other parts of the world, this study determined the characteristics of IPHs in China in terms of perpetrators, victims, incidents, and types of intimate relationships. Although the previous theoretical research has given reasonable explanations for IPHs, the relationship between perpetrator and victim is actually a neglected area in the study of IPHs. In this study, we found that the relationship between them played a leading role in understanding IPHs in China.

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“…In the United States, African Americans are more likely to live in neighborhoods that can be accurately characterized as socially disorganized, thanks to economic and political policies that resulted in the disappearance of high-paying manufacturing jobs, the building of dense public housing, the migration of middle-class African Americans away from these areas, and the resulting loss of social networks that once provided prosocial role models to young people. The ultimate effect of these policies was the creation of severely socially isolated neighborhoods where new value systems, some of which support crime and violence, emerged (Sampson & Wilson, 1995).…”

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Examining Postdisaster Behavior Through a Criminological Lens: A Look at Property Crime

Frailing

Harper

2020

American Behavioral Scientist

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Disaster sociology has a rich and undeniably valuable history. Among other things, it has revealed much about the behavior of disaster survivors. In recent years, criminologists have turned their attention and the discipline’s theories, methods, and data sources to understanding behavior in the wake of disasters and have come to a number of additional and sometimes different conclusions than did sociologists. In this article, we examine property crime in the wake of some recent and high-profile disasters. We find short-term increases in burglary after a number of disasters, ostensibly challenging some long-held notions in disaster sociology. We contend that the use of criminological methods including secondary analysis of extant data to understand behavior after disasters provides a more nuanced and accurate picture of postdisaster behavior and conclude with a call for inclusion of these theories, methods, and data sources in disaster studies more widely.

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Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality

Cited by 227 publications

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Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Housing Inequality in Urban China: Theoretical Debates, Empirical Evidences, and Future Directions

Characteristics of Intimate Partner Homicide in China: Compared With Previous Studies in Other Countries

Examining Postdisaster Behavior Through a Criminological Lens: A Look at Property Crime

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