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Gaston, Melanie E.. The impact of eviction on neighborhood gun violence. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-fyzs-zc80

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TitleThe impact of eviction on neighborhood gun violence
NameGaston, Melanie E. (author); Stansfield, Richard (chair); Semenza, Daniel (internal member); Link, Nathan (internal member); Rutgers University; Camden Graduate School
Date Created2021
Other Date2021-05 (degree)
SubjectEviction, Criminal Justice
Extent1 online resource (ii, 33 pages)
DescriptionDecades of research established a connection between crime and highly disadvantaged neighborhoods, characterized by persistent poverty, residential instability, and other economic and social strains. Despite the importance of housing stability, few studies have sought to tease out the association of eviction with violent crime beyond other markers of disadvantage. This thesis seeks to establish the association between evictions, poverty and gun violence. Understanding the neighborhood level characteristics that exacerbate and contribute to crime is critical to tackling the US gun violence issue and is especially important due to the pandemic-caused eviction crisis. Many indicators of disadvantage like poverty, unemployment, joblessness, and a lack of social resources are closely linked to each other and understanding each on a distinct level is important to understanding if and how each may cause violence. I test this using negative binomial regression models, and separately by majority white and majority Black neighborhoods. Eviction had a robust and consistent association with shootings in my sample, although most pronounced in communities with lower than average poverty rates.
NoteM.A.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses, ETD graduate
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-fyzs-zc80
LanguageEnglish
CollectionCamden Graduate School Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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