Divergent Social Worlds: Neighborhood Crime and the Racial-Spatial Divide

by Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo

Book Overview

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and economic advantage or disadvantage that each community experiences--particularly its crime rate--is most often a reflection of which group is in the majority. As Ruth Peterson and Lauren Krivo note in Divergent Social Worlds, "Race, place, and crime are still inextricably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871546930
• ISBN13: 9780871546937
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"