Community Disadvantage and Race-Specific Rates of Violent Crime: An Investigation into the "Racial Invariance" Hypothesis in the United Kingdom
Community Disadvantage and Race-Specific Rates of Violent Crime: An Investigation into the "Racial Invariance" Hypothesis in the United Kingdom
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社区劣势和特定种族暴力犯罪率：对英国“种族不变”假说的调查
DOI：
10.1080/01639625.2014.982749
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发表时间：
2015
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影响因子：
1.6
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Laurence J
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作者：
Laurence J
关于结构性劣势如何影响种族群体暴力犯罪的研究结果好坏参半。然而，在美国，黑人和白色社区一级的劣势分布只有部分重叠，排除了“种族不变性”假设的关键测试。我们研究种族，暴力犯罪和劣势之间的关系在英国，种族群体的劣势分布有更大的可比性。使用伦敦区一级的数据，我们观察到种族不变性在低/高劣势。然而，在极端不利的情况下，黑人社区的影响显著增加，而白色或南亚人则不然。这与证明种族不变性或黑人中较弱影响的研究相冲突。
Research into how structural disadvantage affects violent crime among racial groups has produced mixed results. In the United States, however, black and white community-level disadvantage distributions only partially overlap, precluding critical tests of the “racial invariance” hypothesis. We examine the relationship between race, violent crime, and disadvantage in the United Kingdom, where disadvantage distributions for race-groups have greater comparability. Using London borough-level data, we observe racial-invariance at comparably low/high disadvantage. However, at extreme disadvantage the effect increases significantly for black communities but not white or South Asian. This conflicts with studies demonstrating either racial invariance or weaker effects among blacks.