Deserts of Disadvantage: The Diffuse Effects of Structural Disadvantage on Violence in Urban Communities.
We advance discussion of structural inequality by operationalizing “concentrated” disadvantage in terms of highly disadvantaged communities located at the spatial core of contiguous areas of high disadvantage, and by testing the extent to which such location achieves an independent effect on violenc...
| Published in: | Crime & Delinquency Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 143 - 166 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Feb2018
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