JUVENILE GUN CRIME AND SOCIAL STRESS: BALTIMORE, 1980–1990
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Urban Geography
- Vol. 15 (1) , 45-63
- https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.15.1.45
Abstract
Violence, particularly among minority youths, is a perennial social problem widely regarded as synonymous with the inner city. This analysis examines 2, 639 juvenile gun crimes reported to the police in an 11-year period, 1980-1990, in Baltimore, Maryland. Attention focuses on patterns of selected categories of gun crimes and their relationship to a generalized areal measure of social stress. Salient findings were temporal persistence of pattern; close spatial relationship between gun crimes and (predominantly African-American) census tracts at or above the 8th decile in terms of a social stress index; the territorial nature of gun crimes; and a “frontier” effect with respect to gun crimes with black offenders and white victims. Applications of this analysis to violence prevention are discussed.Keywords
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