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“Conditional on the crime context of the neighborhood … perceptions of the danger posed by crime were higher in neighborhoods with greater numbers of race-ethnic minorities, in particular African–Americans and Latinos."

Perceptions of the Local Danger Posed by Crime: Race, Disorder, Informal Control, and the Police Perceptions of the Local Danger Posed by Crime: Race, Disorder, Informal Control, and the Police These findings highlight disparities in perceptions of the danger posed by crime in neighborhoods of different race-ethnic compositions and suggest they are rooted in interrelated processes of historical and contemporary disadvantage, discrimination, and bias. These findings highlight disparities in perceptions of the danger posed by crime in neighborhoods of different race-ethnic compositions and suggest they are rooted in interrelated processes of historical and contemporary disadvantage, discrimination, and bias. Table 5. Individual and neighborhood predictors of perceived disorder and evaluations of local social control capacities. Table 5. Individual and neighborhood predictors of perceived disorder and evaluations of local social control capacities.
Perceptions of the Local Danger Posed by Crime: Race, Disorder, Informal Control, and the Police
Social Science Research
Drakulich, Kevin M.
Vol. 42 Issue 3, pp. 611–632, 2013
10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.12.012
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