Divergent Social Worlds

Explain why black and Latino neighborhoods tend to have higher crime rates than white neighborhoods?

This week we continue reading the book Divergent Social Worlds by Peterson and Krivo. In general, this book examines racial and ethnic differences in neighborhood crime rates. In the first two chapters that we read last week, they introduced their data collection effort (the National Neighborhood Crime Study, or NNCS), and they discussed some of […]

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