We analyzed key individual, family, and neighborhood factors to assess competing hypotheses
regarding racial/ethnic gaps in perpetrating violence. From 1995 to 2002, we collected 3 …

The spatial segregation of the US population by socioeconomic position and especially race/ethnicity
suggests that the social contexts or “neighborhoods” in which people live may …

We propose a theoretical framework on the structural sources and spatially embedded
nature of three mechanisms that produce collective efficacy for children. Using survey data …

Integrating ecological, demographic, and criminological theory, this article examines the
role of violent crime and socioeconomic disadvantage in triggering population decline in …

▪ Abstract This paper assesses and synthesizes the cumulative results of a new “neighborhood-effects”
literature that examines social processes related to problem behaviors and health…

Since the mid-1970s, the United States has experienced an enormous rise in incarceration
and accompanying increases in returning prisoners and in postrelease community …

This paper discusses problems that are common to both the epidemiologic risk‐factor approach
and the demographic variable‐based approach to studying population health. We argue …

Highlighting resource inequality, social processes, and spatial interdependence, this study
combines structural characteristics from the 1990 census with a survey of 8,872 Chicago …

Former prisoners are at high risk of economic insecurity due to the challenges they face in
finding employment and to the difficulties of securing and maintaining public assistance while …

During the first half of the twentieth century, criminologists scrutinized the publicly popular
view that immigrants from southern and eastern Europe, who came to the United States in …