Crime and segregation |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Applied Physics Research Laboratory, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand;2. Thailand Center of Excellence in Physics, Commission on Higher Education, 328 Si Ayutthaya Road, Bangkok 10400, Thailand;1. Bank of Canada, Canada;2. Drexel University, USA;3. Bureau of Labor Statistics, USA;1. Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA;2. University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL, USA;3. Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, USA;4. University of Cincinnati School of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA;5. Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | Metropolitan areas in the United States are characterized by both geographic concentration in robbery rates, and racial segregation in residential patterns. We argue that these two phenomena are closely connected. Robberies typically involve incomplete information about the likelihood of victim resistance and offender violence. Geographic concentration in robbery rates can lead to segregation (in excess of levels that would emerge under neighborhood sorting by income) because robbers prey disproportionately on whites, believing them to be more compliant, and whites protect themselves by moving disproportionately to safer neighborhoods. Hence, conditional on income, blacks live in more dangerous neighborhoods than whites. |
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