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Making the Second Ghetto: Race and Housing in Chicago, 1940-1960
Peter G. Goheen,Arnold R. Hirsch +1 more
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The Dimensions of Residential Segregation
TL;DR: In this article, residential segregation is viewed as a multidimensional phenomenon varying along five distinct axes of measurement: evenness exposure concentration centralization and clustering, and 20 indices of segregation are surveyed and related conceptually to 1 of the five dimensions.
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Extremely Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Urban Crime
Lauren J. Krivo,Ruth D. Peterson +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the relationship between neighborhood disadvantage and crime and find that extremely disadvantaged neighborhoods have unusually high rates of crime and that local structural disadvantage is equally important in influencing crime in black and white neighborhoods.
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Changes in the segregation of whites from blacks during the 1980s: small steps toward a more integrated society.
Reynolds Farley,William H. Frey +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented the first analysis of black-white residential segregation for 1980-1990 and evaluated patterns for all metropolitan areas with substantial black populations, concluding that the forces aimed at lowering institutionalized segregation have had some effect.
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Hypersegregation in U.S. metropolitan areas: black and Hispanic segregation along five dimensions.
TL;DR: It is concluded that blacks occupy a unique and distinctly disadvantaged position in the U.S. urban environment and are likely to be segregated on all five dimensions simultaneously, which never occurs for Hispanics.
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Cultural Mechanisms and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence
TL;DR: The authors find that legal cynicism explains why homicide persisted in certain Chicago neighborhoods during the 1990s despite declines in poverty and declines in violence citywide.