Download or read book City and Suburban Crime Trends in Metropolitan America written by Elizabeth Kneebone and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though much has been written about the precipitous declines in crime since the 1990s, less is known about trends within the nation's big cities and suburbs. Two-thirds of the nation's population lives in the 100 largest metropolitan areas, but crime levels vary greatly across - and even within - these regions. To what extent have decreases in crime been shared across these communities? Moreover, crime fell over a period that coincided with considerable changes in the makeup and distribution of the country's metropolitan population. Do those changes help explain the steep declines in communitylevel crime? In this paper, [the authors] explore these questions by analyzing crime data compiled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and data from the U.S. Census Bureau to provide a geographically-focused assessment of how crime rates have changed between 1990 and 2008. Specifically, we analyze data for the roughly 5,400 communities located within the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan areas. We estimate changes in metropolitan crime, as well as city and suburban trends within these regions. We then consider the relationship between community-level demographic characteristics and crime, and analyze how those relationships may have changed over time.

Download or read book The Relationship Between Suburbanization and Crime in U S Metropolitan Areas written by Yoonhwan Park and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relationship between suburbanization and crime using census data and Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data from 1980 to 2000. A high crime rate might cause population flight toward suburban areas. At the same time, after controlling social, economic, and demographic characteristics, suburbanization might lead to a higher overall crime rate in metropolitan areas because of ecological impacts in isolated and poor communities. Thus, the causal relationship between suburbanization and crime could be reciprocal. While the majority of previous research has focused on causality from crime to suburbanization, few studies have explicitly recognized the issue of simultaneity or dealt with the opposite direction of causality---from suburbanization to crime. Suburbanization refers to a redistribution of population within a metropolitan area. It is theoretically possible that as a region suburbanizes, people and crime spread out proportionately, so that the metropolitan crime rate would be unaffected. In practice, however, suburbanization is not neutral with respect to income or crime. Because higher income people disproportionately move to the suburbs and lower income people are more likely to remain in the central city and inner-ring suburbs, I expect to find differential crime rates in these areas. Over and above this composition effect, poor neighborhoods may experience an independent and disproportionate effect on the crime rate caused by social isolation and neighborhood effects. High central city crime due to composition effects alone would not change the overall metropolitan crime rate, but higher central city crime due to social isolation would increase it. I use two methods to attempt to identify the effect of suburbanization on crime. First, we estimate a two-stage least squares models of the simultaneous relationship between suburbanization and crime. Second, to control for historical and urban life-cycle considerations that could affect both suburbanization and crime, I estimate fixed effect models on a 1980 to 2000 panel of metropolitan areas. This study examines how the spatial distribution of population in metropolitan areas has been affecting or has been affected by crime across several decades. The study provides following research findings: (1) both demographic and geographic characteristics play a role in explaining high crime rates. (2) Suburbanization causes crime after controlling for all omitted variables related to time and regional effects. (3) The relation between suburbanization and crime seems to be stronger for property crime than violent crime. (4) The result depends on the indicator used to measure suburbanization. (5) suburbanization affects crime rather than is affected by crime.

Download or read book Locating City Suburban and Rural Crime written by Richard W. Dodge and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Confronting Suburban Poverty in America written by Elizabeth Kneebone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been nearly a half century since President Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty. Back in the 1960s tackling poverty "in place" meant focusing resources in the inner city and in rural areas. The suburbs were seen as home to middle- and upper-class families—affluent commuters and homeowners looking for good schools and safe communities in which to raise their kids. But today's America is a very different place. Poverty is no longer just an urban or rural problem, but increasingly a suburban one as well. In Confronting Suburban Poverty in America, Elizabeth Kneebone and Alan Berube take on the new reality of metropolitan poverty and opportunity in America. After decades in which suburbs added poor residents at a faster pace than cities, the 2000s marked a tipping point. Suburbia is now home to the largest and fastest-growing poor population in the country and more than half of the metropolitan poor. However, the antipoverty infrastructure built over the past several decades does not fit this rapidly changing geography. As Kneebone and Berube cogently demonstrate, the solution no longer fits the problem. The spread of suburban poverty has many causes, including shifts in affordable housing and jobs, population dynamics, immigration, and a struggling economy. The phenomenon raises several daunting challenges, such as the need for more (and better) transportation options, services, and financial resources. But necessity also produces opportunity—in this case, the opportunity to rethink and modernize services, structures, and procedures so that they work in more scaled, cross-cutting, and resource-efficient ways to address widespread need. This book embraces that opportunity. Kneebone and Berube paint a new picture of poverty in America as well as the best ways to combat it. Confronting Suburban Poverty in America offers a series of workable recommendations for public, private, and nonprofit leaders seeking to modernize po

Download or read book Crime Against Persons in Urban Suburban and Rural Areas written by John J. Gibbs and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book City Crime Rankings written by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and published by Morgan Quitno Corporation. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Companion to Urban and Regional Studies written by Anthony M. Orum and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-07-05 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: COMPANION TO URBAN AND REGIONAL STUDIES Indispensable overview and timely coverage of the major issues, debates, and research topics in urban and regional studies Companion to Urban and Regional Studies offers an up-to-date view of the rapidly growing field, exploring a diversity of theoretical perspectives, current and emerging research, and critical global policy concerns. Uniquely broad in geographical and thematic scope, this comprehensive volume brings together essays by more than fifty international scholars and researchers to provide expert assessments spanning the many dimensions of urban studies. Organized into five parts, the Companion begins with a review of the current state of cities across East Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, North America, Europe, and Latin America, and all other world regions. Subsequent sections discuss contemporary theoretical perspectives, describe common methodological approaches used by urban scholars, and examine the political, social, and economic problems facing twenty-first century cities. Covering historical issues, current challenges, and comparative perspectives in urban studies, this timely resource: Addresses intensely debated policy issues such as governance, housing, immigration and migration, segregation, social mix, and gentrification Describes the use of demographic methods, advanced spatial analysis, social networks, policy mobilities, and ethnographies in urban studies research Discusses critical urban theory, feminist urban research, urbanization and environmental change, and the legacy of the Chicago School Covers contemporary research topics such as urban and regional inequalities, social heterogeneity and diversity, financialization Includes representative case studies of each region, including Australasia, Latin America, East Asia and South Asia Companion to Urban and Regional Studies is essential reading for scholars, researchers, practitioners, urban activists, and students, and it represents a must-have complement to The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies.

Download or read book Deviance and Social Control written by Michelle Inderbitzin and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deviance and Social Control: A Sociological Perspective provides a sociological examination of deviant behavior in society, with a significant focus on the major sociological theories of deviance and society’s reaction to deviance using readings from classic and current research.

Download or read book Crime in America s Top rated Cities written by and published by Universal Reference Publications (CT). This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes over 20 years of crime statistics in all major crime categories: violent crimes, property crimes and total crime. Crime in America's Top-Rated Cities is conveniently arranged by city and covers 76 top-rated cities. Crime in America's Top-Rated Cities offers details that compare the number of crimes and crime rates for the city, suburbs and metro area and national crime trends for violent, property and total crimes. Also, this handbook contains important information and statistics on Anti-Crime Programs, Crime Risk, Hate Crimes, Illegal Drugs, Law Enforcement, Correctional Facilities, Death Penalty Laws and much more. A much-needed resource for people who are relocating, business professionals, general researchers, the press, law enforcement officials and students of criminal justice.

Download or read book Suburban Remix written by Jason Beske and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investment has flooded back to cities because dense, walkable, mixed-use urban environments offer choices that support diverse dreams. Auto-oriented, single-use suburbs have a hard time competing. Suburban Remix brings together experts in planning, urban design, real estate development, and urban policy to demonstrate how suburbs can use growing demand for urban living to renew their appeal as places to live, work, play, and invest. The case studies and analysis show how compact new urban places are being created in suburbs to produce health, economic, and environmental benefits, and contribute to solving a growing equity crisis.

Download or read book City Crime Rankings 2009 2010 written by Kathleen O'Leary Morgan and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2009-11-24 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get the full list of rankings! Click here. Press Release and Media Contact Click here. Find out how your community fares in the fight against crime. The list of crime rate rankings is just the beginning! City Crime Rankings is a 388 page publication featuring 90 easy-to-use tables of city and metropolitan area crime data. Published annually for sixteen years, City Crime Rankings is a staple resource for researchers, city and law enforcement officials, and the news media that follow trends in crime. This new edition provides easy-to-understand crime comparisons for cities and metro areas throughout the United States. Numbers, rates and trends for total crime, violent crime, murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, property crime, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft are presented in both alphabetical and rank order for all metro areas and cities of 75,000 or more population. Also included are numbers and rates of police in cities. Americans want to know about crime in their communities. City Crime Rankings 2009-2010 provides this essential information in one comprehensive, user-friendly volume.

Download or read book The New Urban Crisis written by Richard Florida and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the young, educated, and affluent have surged back into cities, reversing decades of suburban flight and urban decline. And yet all is not well, Richard Florida argues in The New Urban Crisis. Florida, one of the first scholars to anticipate this back-to-the-city movement in his groundbreaking The Rise of the Creative Class, demonstrates how the same forces that power the growth of the world's superstar cities also generate their vexing challenges: gentrification, unaffordability, segregation, and inequality. Meanwhile, many more cities still stagnate, and middle-class neighborhoods everywhere are disappearing. Our winner-take-all cities are just one manifestation of a profound crisis in today's urbanized knowledge economy. A bracingly original work of research and analysis, The New Urban Crisis offers a compelling diagnosis of our economic ills and a bold prescription for more inclusive cities capable of ensuring growth and prosperity for all.

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Download or read book The Great American Crime Decline written by Wolfen Distinguished Scholar Franklin E. Zimring William G. Simon Professor of Law, and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute University of California Berkeley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2006-11-03 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many theories--from the routine to the bizarre--have been offered up to explain the crime decline of the 1990s. Was it record levels of imprisonment? An abatement of the crack cocaine epidemic? More police using better tactics? Or even the effects of legalized abortion? And what can we expect from crime rates in the future? Franklin E. Zimring here takes on the experts, and counters with the first in-depth portrait of the decline and its true significance. The major lesson from the 1990s is that relatively superficial changes in the character of urban life can be associated with up to 75% drops in the crime rate. Crime can drop even if there is no major change in the population, the economy or the schools. Offering the most reliable data available, Zimring documents the decline as the longest and largest since World War II. It ranges across both violent and non-violent offenses, all regions, and every demographic. All Americans, whether they live in cities or suburbs, whether rich or poor, are safer today. Casting a critical and unerring eye on current explanations, this book demonstrates that both long-standing theories of crime prevention and recently generated theories fall far short of explaining the 1990s drop. A careful study of Canadian crime trends reveals that imprisonment and economic factors may not have played the role in the U.S. crime drop that many have suggested. There was no magic bullet but instead a combination of factors working in concert rather than a single cause that produced the decline. Further--and happily for future progress, it is clear that declines in the crime rate do not require fundamental social or structural changes. Smaller shifts in policy can make large differences. The significant reductions in crime rates, especially in New York, where crime dropped twice the national average, suggests that there is room for other cities to repeat this astounding success. In this definitive look at the great American crime decline, Franklin E. Zimring finds no pat answers but evidence that even lower crime rates might be in store.

Download or read book The Metropolitan Enigma written by James Q. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Crime in America s Top Rated Cities written by Andrew Garoogian and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including government statistics for major crimes reported from 1977-1996, this handbook graphically portrays trends in 75 US cities which have been cited in magazine surveys as among the best places to live. Besides crime data, each metropolitan statistical areas's profile contains information on its anti-crime programs, crime risk, law enforcement, corrections, death penalty provisions and laws. With a caveat against making comparisons due to economic and other factors, cities are not ranked by their crime rates. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Learn Sociology written by Edward Brent and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn Sociology creates a new paradigm for student-centered learning in introductory sociology courses. Written with 21st century students in mind, this text presents introductory sociology content in a highly interactive format that is both easy to use and highly compatible with digital applications. Drawing on best practices in educational pedagogy, Learn Sociology emphasizes "immersive learning," an approach that pairs critical analysis of sociological concepts with examples from everyday life to engage students actively with the material. Weaved through the text are recurring themes that put sociology into context, such as social structure, social control, social inequality, the social construction of reality, scientific knowledge, and social change. Learn Sociology optimizes learning through enhanced coverage, study, testing, and review while emphasizing the "applying" that reinforces comprehension. Based on a modular concept format, each chapter in Learn Sociology addresses a major concept in the introductory sociology curriculum. Associated with each module are key learning objectives, preview statements, illustrations, and a concept learning check assessment. With Learn Sociology, students have access to immediate computer-based feedback on essay questions that helps them practice writing and revising, reason critically, and grapple with real-world issues. All content in Learn Sociology is highly visual, current, and easy to understand while avoiding distracting and off-topic material. Visual overviews play to dynamic learning and underscore important points. The result is an introductory sociology curriculum that is engaging, consistent, and complete while providing students with a roadmap for learning, reviewing and self-assessment.