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The Mexican Drug War and Early-Life Health: The Impact of Violent Crime on Birth Outcomes
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Demography (2018) 55 (1): 319–340.
Published: 17 January 2018
...Ryan Brown Abstract This study examines the relationship between exposure to violent crime in utero and birth weight using longitudinal data from a household survey conducted in Mexico. Controlling for selective migration and fertility, the results suggest that early gestational exposure...
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Living on the Edge: Neighborhood Boundaries and the Spatial Dynamics of Violent Crime
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1957–1977.
Published: 12 September 2018
..., this article argues that neighborhood boundaries—defined as sharp changes in the racial or socioeconomic composition of neighborhoods—are a salient feature of the spatial structure with implications for violent crime and other outcomes. Boundaries lack the social control and cohesion of adjacent homogeneous...
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Crime and Inequality in Academic Achievement Across School Districts in the United States
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Demography (2020) 57 (1): 123–145.
Published: 27 January 2020
...Gerard Torrats-Espinosa Abstract This study investigates the effect of violent crime on school district–level achievement in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics. The research design exploits variation in achievement and violent crime across 813 school districts in the United States...
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1763–1789.
Published: 01 October 2022
... and segregated contexts in their daily routines compared with similarly residentially situated White youth. Specifically, we estimate Black–White differences in nonhome exposure to concentrated disadvantage, racial segregation, collective efficacy, and violent crime. We find that Black youths' activity spaces...
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View articletitled, Racial Inequalities in Adolescents' Exposure to Racial and Socioeconomic Segregation, Collective Efficacy, and Violence
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The Fall of Violence and the Reconfiguration of Urban Neighborhoods
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 599–627.
Published: 01 April 2025
... they are related to each other. This study is the first to generate causal evidence on the impact of violent crime on economic residential segregation. We document the effect of the crime drop on economic segregation in 500 U.S. cities between 1990 and 2010, using exogenous shocks to city crime rates to identify...
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Residential mobility between cities and suburbs: Race, suburbanization, and back-to-the-city moves
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Demography (1997) 34 (4): 525–538.
Published: 01 November 1997
... levels of violent crime and unemployment in cities relative to suburbs also tend to spur city-to-suburb mobility or inhibit suburb-to-city moves. 12 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1997 1997 Central City Census Tract Racial Difference Residential Mobility Metropolitan...
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Long-Term Exposure to Neighborhood Policing and the Racial/Ethnic Gap in High School Graduation
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Demography (2022) 59 (5): 1739–1761.
Published: 01 October 2022
... one quarter and the Latino–White gap by almost one fifth. Alternatively, we explore interventions where policing is solely a function of violent crime, which close the Black–White gap by as much as one tenth. Our study advances previous research by focusing on cumulative, long-term exposure...
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2SLS ELA estimates in low- and high-crime school districts. Point estimates...
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Published: 27 January 2020
school districts (those with an above median violent crime rate in 1996) and low-crime school districts (those with a below median violent crime rate in 1996). Standard errors clustered are by school district. All models include school district fixed effects, cohort fixed effects, and precision weights
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Immigration, crime, and incarceration in early twentieth-century America
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Demography (2009) 46 (4): 739–763.
Published: 01 November 2009
... increases in the commitment rates of the native-born, while commitment rates for the foreign-born were remarkably stable. 13 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2009 2009 Violent Crime Incarceration Rate Minor Offense Federal Prison Commitment Rate An erratum...
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Cross-sectional relationship between crime and achievement. Achievement dat...
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Published: 27 January 2020
violent crime rate in the school district at ages 0–6 averaged across all seven birth cohorts (1996–2002) and the mean eighth-grade achievement in the school district averaged across all seven birth cohorts. The measures of achievement are estimated by combining students of all racial/ethnic groups.
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The age of extremes: Concentrated affluence and poverty in the twenty-first century
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 November 1996
...: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass . American Journal of Sociology , 96 , 329 – 58 . 10.1086/229532 Massey D.S. ( 1995 ). Getting Away with Murder: Segregation and Violent Crime in Urban America . University of Pennsylvania Law Review , 143 , 1203 – 32 . 10.2307/3312474...
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Fifteen years later: Can residential mobility programs provide a long-term escape from neighborhood segregation, crime, and poverty?
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Demography (2005) 42 (1): 51–73.
Published: 01 February 2005
... Census Tract Uniform Crime Reporting Black Resident Violent Crime Rate Current Neighborhood References Alba , R.D. , & Logan , J.R. ( 1993 ). Minority Proximity to Whites in Suburbs: An Individual-Level Analysis of Segregation . American Journal of Sociology , 98 , 1388...
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The foster care crisis: What caused caseloads to grow?
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Demography (2006) 43 (2): 309–335.
Published: 01 May 2006
.... Department of Health and Human Services 1999; U.S. General Accounting Of ce 1997). Although data on crack cocaine usage or arrests are not available, Boggess and Bound (1997) showed that changes in the number of violent crimes during the 1980s and 1990s are consistent with the timing of the crack cocaine ep...
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Demography (2025) 62 (2): 419–439.
Published: 01 April 2025
... threats at migrants’ U.S. destinations increased, violent crime in their Mexican municipalities of origin increased. Ambrosius and Leblang (2020) confirmed relationships between deportations and violence in a cross-country panel, using migrants’ exposure to U.S. migration policies as an instrumental...
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View articletitled, A Deportation Boomerang? Evidence From U.S. Removals to Latin America and the Caribbean
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Skewed Sex Ratios and Criminal Victimization in India
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 1019–1040.
Published: 29 March 2014
... findings regarding this association. The purpose of this article is to examine the possible impact of the sex ratio on self-reports of criminal victimization. With its large imbalance in the numbers of women and men, in tandem with rising concern over ostensible increases in violent crime, India...
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The Distribution of Carceral Harm: County-Level Jail Incarceration and Mortality by Race, Sex, and Age
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Demography (2024) 61 (5): 1455–1482.
Published: 01 October 2024
... characteristics (for a detailed table of data sources and calculations, see Table A1 ). Race-specific violent crime rates 3 were included to account for the direct and racialized link between crime and incarceration, as well as that between violence and mortality. Poverty and college attainment rates were...
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View articletitled, The Distribution of Carceral Harm: County-Level Jail Incarceration and Mortality by Race, Sex, and Age
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Life and Death in the American City: Men’s Life Expectancy in 25 Major American Cities From 1990 to 2015
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2349–2375.
Published: 01 November 2019
... et al. 2000 ). Declines in mortality owing to this new technology resulted in significant life expectancy gains, including 4.7 additional years of life expectancy gained in San Francisco relative to the United States as a whole. Violent crime rates have declined by 50 % nationwide since 1991...
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View articletitled, Life and Death in the American City: Men’s Life Expectancy in 25 Major American Cities From 1990 to 2015
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The neighborhood context of racial and ethnic disparities in arrest
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Demography (2008) 45 (1): 55–77.
Published: 01 February 2008
.../A:1016008004010 Peterson R.D. , & Krivo L.J. ( 2005 ). Macrostructural Analysis of Race, Ethnicity, and Violent Crime: Recent Lessons and New Directions for Research . Annual Review of Sociology , 31 , 311 – 56 . 10.1146/annurev.soc.31.041304.122308 Rabe-Hesketh, S., A. Skrondal...
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in The Distribution of Carceral Harm: County-Level Jail Incarceration and Mortality by Race, Sex, and Age
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Published: 01 October 2024
are estimated separately by life course group. Model 2 adjusts for county covariates, including violent crime; poverty; college attainment; proportions Black, male, and aged 20–34; metropolitan status; and state and time period fixed effects. A 1-standard-deviation increase in race-specific jail rate
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The age of extremes: A revisionist perspective
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 417–420.
Published: 01 November 1996
... in impoverished neighborhoods, where a countercul- ture will develop-one that uses violent crime to acquire the goods that the economy fails to provide. Regarding the United States, Massey foresees growing residential segrega- tion by economic class, persistent residential segregation by race, more crime...
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