Social Anatomy of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Violence

We analyzed key individual, family, and neighborhood factors to assess competing hypotheses regarding racial/ethnic gaps in perpetrating violence. From 1995 to 2002, we collected 3 waves of data on 2974 participants aged 8 [corrected] to 25 years living in 180 Chicago neighborhoods, augmented by a s...

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Published in:American journal of public health (1971) 2005-02, Vol.95 (2), p.224-232
Main Authors: Sampson, Robert J, Morenoff, Jeffrey D, Raudenbush, Stephen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
African Americans
African Americans - statistics & numerical data
Biological and medical sciences
Black people
Censuses
Comparative analysis
Cultural differences
Ethnicity
European Continental Ancestry Group - statistics & numerical data
Family - ethnology
Family structure
Female
Hispanic Americans
Hispanic Americans - statistics & numerical data
Humans
Impulsivity
Inequality
Interviews
Male
Medical sciences
Minority & ethnic groups
Miscellaneous
Models, Statistical
Neighborhoods
Polls & surveys
Public Health
Public Health Matters
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Race
Residence Characteristics - classification
Sampling Studies
Segregation
Self report
Socioeconomic Factors
United States - epidemiology
Violence
Violence - ethnology
Violence - statistics & numerical data
Violence - trends
Violent crime
White people
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Summary:We analyzed key individual, family, and neighborhood factors to assess competing hypotheses regarding racial/ethnic gaps in perpetrating violence. From 1995 to 2002, we collected 3 waves of data on 2974 participants aged 8 [corrected] to 25 years living in 180 Chicago neighborhoods, augmented by a separate community survey of 8782 Chicago residents. The odds of perpetrating violence were 85% higher for Blacks compared with Whites, whereas Latino-perpetrated violence was 10% lower. Yet the majority of the Black-White gap (over 60%) and the entire Latino-White gap were explained primarily by the marital status of parents, immigrant generation, and dimensions of neighborhood social context. The results imply that generic interventions to improve neighborhood conditions and support families may reduce racial gaps in violence.
ISSN:0090-0036
1541-0048
DOI:10.2105/AJPH.2004.037705