Dangerous Places: Gang Members and Neighborhood Levels of Gun Assault. (28th July 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Dangerous Places: Gang Members and Neighborhood Levels of Gun Assault. (28th July 2016)
- Main Title:
- Dangerous Places: Gang Members and Neighborhood Levels of Gun Assault
- Authors:
- Huebner, Beth M.
Martin, Kimberly
Moule, Richard K.
Pyrooz, David
Decker, Scott H. - Abstract:
- Abstract : Despite attention to the role of gangs in urban gun violence, much remains to be learned about the spatial distribution and consequences of residential gang membership. This study uses data from St. Louis to examine the effects of resident gang membership on rates of gun assault. We also consider whether gun violence is conditioned by the level of gang membership in surrounding communities. As anticipated, communities with the highest number of gang members also have the highest rates of gun assault. However, much of the impact of gang membership on gun assaults extends outside of the boundaries of gang neighborhoods, especially those neighborhoods with few or no gang members. The number of gang members in surrounding neighborhoods has no discernible effect on gun assaults in communities with higher rates of gang membership. Finally, controlling for the spatial proximity of residential gang membership helps to account for some of the association between neighborhood disadvantage and gun assaults.
- Is Part Of:
- Justice quarterly. Volume 33:Number 5(2016)
- Journal:
- Justice quarterly
- Issue:
- Volume 33:Number 5(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 33, Issue 5 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 33
- Issue:
- 5
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0033-0005-0000
- Page Start:
- 836
- Page End:
- 862
- Publication Date:
- 2016-07-28
- Subjects:
- gangs -- guns -- neighborhoods -- violence
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Periodicals
Criminal justice, Administration of -- United States -- Periodicals
340.11405 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjqy20#.VrB9elLnmic ↗
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/07418825.asp ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/07418825.2014.984751 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0741-8825
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- Legaldeposit
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