{"product_id":"divergent-social-worlds-neighborhood-crime-and-the-racialspatial-divide-american-sociological-associations-rose-series-9780871546975","title":"Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide (American Sociological Association's Rose Series)","description":"\u003cp\u003eMore than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled  the majority of urban neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and economic advantage or disadvantage that each community experiencesparticularly its crime rateis most often a reflection of which group is in the majority. As Ruth Peterson and Lauren Krivo note in Divergent Social Worlds  \"Race  place  and crime are still inextricably linked in the minds of the public.\" This book broadens the scope of single-city  black\/white studies by using national data to compare local crime patterns in five racially distinct types of neighborhoods. Peterson and Krivo meticulously demonstrate how residential segregation creates and maintains inequality in neighborhood crime rates. Based on the authors groundbreaking National Neighborhood Crime Study (NNCS)  Divergent Social Worlds provides a more complete picture of the social conditions underlying neighborhood crime patterns than has ever before been drawn. The study includes economic  social  and local investment data for nearly nine thousand neighborhoods in eighty-seven cities  and the findings reveal a pattern across neighborhoods of racialized separation among unequal groups. Residential segregation reproduces existing privilege or disadvantage in neighborhoodssuch as adequate or inadequate schools  political representation  and local businessincreasing the potential for crime and instability in impoverished non-white areas yet providing few opportunities for residents to improve conditions or leave. And the numbers bear this out. Among urban residents  more than two-thirds of all whites  half of all African Americans  and one-third of Latinos live in segregated local neighborhoods. More than 90 percent of white neighborhoods have low poverty  but this is only true for one quarter of black  Latino  and minority areas. Of the five types of neighborhoods studied  African American communities experience violent crime on average at a rate five times that of their white counterparts  with violence rates for Latino  minority  and integrated neighborhoods falling between the two extremes. Divergent Social Worlds lays to rest the popular misconception that persistently high crime rates in impoverished  non-white neighborhoods are merely the result of individual pathologies or  worse  inherent group criminality. Yet Peterson and Krivo also show that the reality of crime inequality in urban neighborhoods is no less alarming. Separate  the book emphasizes  is inherently unequal. Divergent Social Worlds lays the groundwork for closing the gapand for next steps among organizers  policymakers  and future researchers. A Volume in the American Sociological Associations Rose Series in Sociology\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647069937717,"sku":"ByrdShop_0871546973","price":29.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780871546975.jpg?v=1781687529","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/divergent-social-worlds-neighborhood-crime-and-the-racialspatial-divide-american-sociological-associations-rose-series-9780871546975","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}