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The Corner and the Crew: The Influence of Geography and Social Networks on Gang Violence

Andrew V. Papachristos, +2 more
- 01 Jun 2013 - 
- Vol. 78, Iss: 3, pp 417-447
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In this paper, the authors examine how neighborhood properties influence a host of phenomena such as crime, poverty, health, civic engagement, immigration, and economic inequality, and show that neighborhood properties can influence these phenomena.
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Nearly a century of empirical research examines how neighborhood properties influence a host of phenomena such as crime, poverty, health, civic engagement, immigration, and economic inequality. The...

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Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect

TL;DR: Sampson, Robert J. as mentioned in this paper, The Great American city: Chicago and the enduring neighborhood effect. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2012. pp. 552, $27.50 cloth.
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Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class

TL;DR: Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class as discussed by the authors, by Mary Patillo-McCoy, is a seminal work in the history of black people.
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Big Data Surveillance: The Case of Policing:

TL;DR: In this paper, the intersection of two structural developments: the growth of surveillance and the rise of big data is examined, drawing on observations and interviews conducted within the Los Angeles area.
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Saving Human Lives: What Complexity Science and Information Systems can Contribute

TL;DR: Models and data of crowd disasters, crime, terrorism, war and disease spreading are discussed to show that conventional recipes, such as deterrence strategies, are often not effective and sufficient to contain them and complexity science can help to save human lives.
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The Strength of Weak Ties

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the degree of overlap of two individuals' friendship networks varies directly with the strength of their tie to one another, and the impact of this principle on diffusion of influence and information, mobility opportunity, and community organization is explored.
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TL;DR: This work characterizes networked structures in terms of nodes (individual actors, people, or things within the network) and the ties, edges, or links that connect them.
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Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy

TL;DR: Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled.
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Graph drawing by force-directed placement

TL;DR: A modification of the spring‐embedder model of Eades for drawing undirected graphs with straight edges is presented, developed in analogy to forces in natural systems, for a simple, elegant, conceptually‐intuitive, and efficient algorithm.
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