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Public housing and lethal violence
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Public housing and lethal violence
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an analysis of the effect of the presence of public housing on homicide rates
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Lesneskie
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Eric G.
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1982-
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Eric Lesneskie
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author
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Sullivan
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Mercer
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Mercer Sullivan
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Advisory Committee
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chair
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Apel
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Robert
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Robert Apel
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Advisory Committee
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internal member
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Griffiths
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Elizabeth
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Elizabeth Griffiths
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Advisory Committee
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internal member
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Pizarro
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Jesenia
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Jesenia Pizarro
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Advisory Committee
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outside member
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Rutgers University
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degree grantor
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Graduate School - Newark
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theses
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2013
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2013-05
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xx
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eng
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After the Second World War, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provided funding to local housing authorities to build large scale public housing developments in many cities across the United States. Unfortunately, most of those housing projects were beset with a host of problems as time progressed, including deteriorating building structures, concentrated poverty, racial segregation, and crime. In perhaps no city is this story more heavily studied than in Chicago. Chicago’s public housing tribulations are legendary and are well documented in the academic literature. Many of Chicago’s projects were large high-rise projects located in disadvantaged, isolated, and residentially distinct neighborhoods with strong gang, drug, and crime presence. However, relatively little research has examined the association between Chicago’s public housing and homicide. Specifically, it is uncertain as to whether the unique physical and social environments of public housing developments have an independent effect on lethal violence or whether the high rates of homicides occurring in public housing areas are influenced predominately by neighborhood conditions. Utilizing the Chicago Homicide Data set, this dissertation disentangles the effects of public housing on lethal violence. This study, first, estimated negative binominal regression models to determine the effect of the presence of public housing on tract level rates of homicide. The results of these analyses indicate that the presence of public housing is not a significant predictor of the rates of lethal violence and neighborhood conditions are driving the high rates of homicides occurring in public housing areas. Secondly, the nature of lethal violence occurring in public housing areas was determined by using negative binominal regression and bivariate analyses. Homicides, disaggregated by motive, do not occur at higher rates or disproportionately in Chicago’s tracts with public housing compared to tracts without. The findings from this dissertation indicate that public housing areas do not seem to be micro places that influence a specific type of violence and that neighborhood conditions are driving the high rates of homicide occurring in public housing areas rather than the unique physical and social environments of public housing developments.
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Criminal Justice
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Rutgers University Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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vii, 206 p. : ill.
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Ph.D.
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Includes bibliographical references
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Includes vita
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by Eric G. Lesneskie
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Public housing--Illinois--Chicago--History
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Chicago Housing Authority
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Crime in public housing--Illinois--Chicago
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Homicide--Illinois--Chicago--Research
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http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/rucore10002600001.ETD.000068721
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Graduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
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doi:10.7282/T3ZS2V35
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ETD doctoral
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The author owns the copyright to this work.
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Lesneskie
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Eric
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2013-04-25 07:54:03
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Eric Lesneskie
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Rutgers University. Graduate School - Newark
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I hereby grant to the Rutgers University Libraries and to my school the non-exclusive right to archive, reproduce and distribute my thesis or dissertation, in whole or in part, and/or my abstract, in whole or in part, in and from an electronic format, subject to the release date subsequently stipulated in this submittal form and approved by my school. I represent and stipulate that the thesis or dissertation and its abstract are my original work, that they do not infringe or violate any rights of others, and that I make these grants as the sole owner of the rights to my thesis or dissertation and its abstract. I represent that I have obtained written permissions, when necessary, from the owner(s) of each third party copyrighted matter to be included in my thesis or dissertation and will supply copies of such upon request by my school. I acknowledge that RU ETD and my school will not distribute my thesis or dissertation or its abstract if, in their reasonable judgment, they believe all such rights have not been secured. I acknowledge that I retain ownership rights to the copyright of my work. I also retain the right to use all or part of this thesis or dissertation in future works, such as articles or books.
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