Neighborhoods of last resort: How landlord strategies concentrate violent crime
AbstractStudies of crime hot spots have argued that landlords ’ management styles, specifically their tenant screening and property monitoring techniques, affect crime. These studies, however, have rarely considered the political–economic contexts in which these actions take place: specifically, how landlords’ behaviors are shaped by, and themselves repr oduce, larger rental market structures. Drawing on data pertaining to eviction rates, criminal incidents, housing code violations, and landlord behavior in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this study documents how extractive rental management strategies, such as weak tenant scr...
Source: Criminology - May 6, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Henry Gomory,
Matthew Desmond Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effect of racial misclassification in police data on estimates of racial disparities
AbstractResearch on race and policing increasingly draws upon data collected by police officers to estimate racial disparities in police contact. Many of these data sets, however, rely on officer perception of a stopped person's race, which may be inconsistent with how those individuals self-identify. Furthermore, researchers frequently benchmark contact data where race is perceived by police officers against census and survey data where race is self-identified. We argue that discordance between how individuals self-identify and how they are classified by officers can bias estimates of racial disparities. Using a unique da...
Source: Criminology - May 6, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Ayobami Laniyonu,
Samuel T. Donahue Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The future of crime data
AbstractCriminology lacks sufficient data for many types of crime that are of great concern to society. This lack of data poses significant problems for determining whether resources are adequate for responding to these crimes or whether programmatic, legislative, or target-hardening efforts to prevent or reduce their occurrence are effective. Inadequate data about crime also produces a selective and incomplete narrative about crime that makes it easier for political and vested interests to exploit public concerns about crime for their own ends. In this address, I discuss what is needed to resolve these gaps and the ways i...
Source: Criminology - May 6, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Janet L. Lauritsen Tags: 2022 ASC PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Source Type: research
What is “prison culture”? Developing a theoretical and methodological foundation for understanding cultural schema in prison
AbstractWhat does it mean to say that a prison has a “culture?” Scholars have long emphasized the presence of a “prison code” and, more recently, a “racial code” as salient cultural domains in men's prisons. Yet, even though most people intuitively understand what is meant by “prison culture,” little progress has been made regarding th e conceptualization and operationalization of culture as an analytical construct in prison scholarship. The current study makes two primary contributions to this literature. First, drawing on advances in anthropology, cultural sociology, and cognitive science, we incorporate ...
Source: Criminology - May 2, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Jacob T.N. Young,
Travis J. Meyers,
Stephanie J. Morse Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The “war on cops,” retaliatory violence, and the murder of George Floyd
AbstractThe police murder of George Floyd sparked nationwide protests in the summer of 2020 and revived claims that public outcry over such high-profile police killings perpetuated a violent “war on cops.” Using data collected by the Gun Violence Archive (GVA) on firearm assaults of U.S. police officers, we use Bayesian structural time series (BSTS) modeling to empirically assess if and how patterns of firearm assault on police officers in the United States were influenced by the po lice murder of George Floyd. Our analysis finds that the murder of George Floyd was associated with a 3-week spike in firearm assaults on ...
Source: Criminology - April 28, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Michael Sierra ‐Arévalo,
Justin Nix,
Scott M. Mourtgos Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Neighborhoods of last resort: How landlord strategies concentrate violent crime*
AbstractStudies of crime hot spots have argued that landlords ’ management styles, specifically their tenant screening and property monitoring techniques, affect crime. These studies, however, have rarely considered the political–economic contexts in which these actions take place: specifically, how landlords’ behaviors are shaped by, and themselves repr oduce, larger rental market structures. Drawing on data pertaining to eviction rates, criminal incidents, housing code violations, and landlord behavior in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, this study documents how extractive rental management strategies, such as weak tenant scr...
Source: Criminology - April 13, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Henry Gomory,
Matthew Desmond Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Racial attitudes and belief in redeemability: Most Whites believe justice ‐involved Black people can change
AbstractPublic belief in redeemability reduces punitiveness and increases support for policy measures such as rehabilitation, expungement, and housing and employment opportunities. Although racial attitudes are known to influence a wide range of criminal justice policy opinions, their effects on beliefs about redeemability and condemnation have not been fully explored. Using data from a 2019 YouGov survey of a national sample of White U.S. adults (N = 766), the current study estimates the effects of three distinct racial attitudes —racial resentment, racial sympathy, and White nationalism—on three measures of belief in...
Source: Criminology - April 2, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Leah C. Butler,
Francis T. Cullen,
Velmer S. Burton Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The “STICKINESS” of stigma: Guilt by association after a friend's arrest*
This study expands on labeling theory and the concept of “stickiness” by assessing whether a friend's arrest increases the likelihood of one's police contact. Using a sample of rural youth (N = 13,170), I find that a friend's arrest is associated with an increase in the likelihood of one's first arrest the next year after accounting for other predicto rs of police contact. Based on my theoretical framework, I interpret this finding as “guilt by association.” In addition, ending relationships with friends who have been arrested does not significantly impact this relationship. This study concludes that police contact...
Source: Criminology - March 31, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Erin Tinney Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
Effect of racial misclassification in police data on estimates of racial disparities*
AbstractResearch on race and policing increasingly draws upon data collected by police officers to estimate racial disparities in police contact. Many of these data sets, however, rely on officer perception of a stopped person's race, which may be inconsistent with how those individuals self-identify. Furthermore, researchers frequently benchmark contact data where race is perceived by police officers against census and survey data where race is self-identified. We argue that discordance between how individuals self-identify and how they are classified by officers can bias estimates of racial disparities. Using a unique da...
Source: Criminology - March 23, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Ayobami Laniyonu,
Samuel T. Donahue Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
The future of crime data*
AbstractCriminology lacks sufficient data for many types of crime that are of great concern to society. This lack of data poses significant problems for determining whether resources are adequate for responding to these crimes or whether programmatic, legislative, or target-hardening efforts to prevent or reduce their occurrence are effective. Inadequate data about crime also produces a selective and incomplete narrative about crime that makes it easier for political and vested interests to exploit public concerns about crime for their own ends. In this address, I discuss what is needed to resolve these gaps and the ways i...
Source: Criminology - March 3, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Janet L. Lauritsen Tags: 2022 ASC PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS Source Type: research
Unpredictable and monetized contact with the police: Race, avoidance behaviors, and modified activity spaces
AbstractExponential growth in order maintenance policing and associated misdemeanor sanctions have led to disproportionate consequences for people of color. Using data from qualitative interviews with individuals in the metropolitan St. Louis, Missouri, region, the current study documents the racialized and monetized nature of police contact. This work extends extant scholarship by considering how minor contact with the police shapes individual avoidance behaviors and activity spaces, places where people work and live. We consider how the combination of monetary sanctions, warrants, incarceration, and overpolicing in the r...
Source: Criminology - February 13, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Andrea Giuffre,
Beth M. Huebner Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
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Source: Criminology - February 4, 2023 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
“That shit doesn't fly”: Subcultural constraints on prison radicalization
AbstractMany observers describe prison subcultures as inherently and irredeemably antisocial. Research directly ties prison subcultures to violence, gang membership, and poor reintegration. In extreme cases, research has also suggested that prison subcultures contribute to incarcerated people joining radical groups or embracing violent extremist beliefs. These claims, however, ignore key differences in the larger cultural and social context of prisons. We examine the relationship between prison subcultures and prison radicalization based on semistructured qualitative interviews with 148 incarcerated men and 131 correctiona...
Source: Criminology - January 11, 2023 Category: Criminology Authors: Sandra M. Bucerius,
William Schultz,
Kevin D. Haggerty Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Value orientations, life transitions, and desistance: Assessing competing perspectives
AbstractLaub and Sampson (2003) and Paternoster and Bushway (2009) offered opposing explanations of desistance from crime. Yet, extant research has failed to test the key theoretical differences that distinguish these perspectives: 1) the temporal ordering of internal changes in identity/values and life transitions and 2) the impact of values/life transitions on offending conditional on key predictors from the opposing theory (e.g., whether marriage contributes to desistance among individuals who already hold prosocial values). We assess competing claims using data from the Pathways to Desistance. We find that within-perso...
Source: Criminology - December 22, 2022 Category: Criminology Authors: Kyle J. Thomas,
Holly Nguyen,
Erica P. Jackson Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Comparing deep ‐end confinement in england & wales and norway
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Source: Criminology - December 5, 2022 Category: Criminology Authors: BEN CREWE,
JULIE LAURSEN,
KRISTIAN MJ ÅLAND Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Source Type: research
