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Perceptions of a neighborhood’s disorder (driven largely by minority presence) is a better indicator of future crime than actual neighborhood conditions due to “unwittingly promoted self-reinforcing actions…e.g, outmigration…thereby producing what it seeks to avoid."

Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect

Sampson, Robert J.

ISBN-13: 9780226055688 / ISBN-10: 022605568X

University of Chicago Press, 2012

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