1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457133903321

Autore

Kikuchi George <1980->

Titolo

Neighborhood structures and crime [[electronic resource] ] : a spatial analysis / / George Kikuchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, c2010

ISBN

1-59332-557-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice: recent scholarship

Disciplina

364.2/2

Soggetti

Criminal statistics

Neighborhoods

Crime analysis

Spatial analysis (Statistics)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-196) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Longitudinal analysis of crime rates at the neighborhood level -- An analysis of spatially varying associations between neighborhood characteristics and crime -- A spatial analysis of criminal offenders' target selection -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Thinking in spatial terms is essential in understanding crime and criminal behavior. By integrating newly developed statistical methods from interdisciplinary fields with social disorganization theory and routine activities theory, Kikuchi examines the spatial and temporal dynamics of crime at the neighborhood level. Statistical analyses consistently indicate that neighborhood characteristics are important predictors of the spatial distribution of crime, longitudinal trends of crime, and even criminal offenders' target selection. Kikuchi endeavors to uncover the mechanism of how neighborhood c



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460566603321

Autore

Steptoe Tyina L. <1975->

Titolo

Houston bound : culture and color in a Jim Crow city / / Tyina L. Steptoe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-520-95853-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (341 p.)

Collana

American Crossroads ; ; 41

Disciplina

305.8009764/2350904

Soggetti

Minorities - Texas - Houston - Social conditions - 20th century

Music - Social aspects - Texas - Houston - History - 20th century

Electronic books.

Houston (Tex.) Emigration and immigration History 20th century

Houston (Tex.) Ethnic relations History 20th century

Houston (Tex.) History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction: When Worlds Collide -- Part one -- Part two -- Part three -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Beginning after World War I, Houston was transformed from a black-and-white frontier town into one of the most ethnically and racially diverse urban areas in the United States. Houston Bound draws on social and cultural history to show how, despite Anglo attempts to fix racial categories through Jim Crow laws, converging migrations-particularly those of Mexicans and Creoles-complicated ideas of blackness and whiteness and introduced different understandings about race. This migration history also uses music and sound to examine these racial complexities, tracing the emergence of Houston's blues and jazz scenes in the 1920's as well as the hybrid forms of these genres that arose when migrants forged shared social space and carved out new communities and politics. This interdisciplinary book provides both an innovative historiography about migration and immigration in the twentieth century and a critical examination of a city located in the



former Confederacy.