For more than three decades, developmental and life-course criminology has been a source
of theoretical advancement, methodological innovation, and policy and practice guidance …

Objective To estimate the net effect of living in a gentrified neighborhood on probability of
having serious psychological distress. Data Sources We pooled 5 years of secondary data …

Reported gang-related violent crimes in Los Angeles, California, from 1/1/14 to 12/31/17 are
modeled using spatial–temporal marked Hawkes point processes with covariates. We …

Gang research has spanned nearly a century. In that time, we have learned that gang
membership increases the chances of involvement in homicide as a victim or offender. The …

In the US, there is a growing number of older Latinx communities. Qualitative approaches
such as narrative inquiry may be fruitful endeavors to elucidate their lived experiences …

The hypothesis that violence—especially gang violence—behaves like a contagious
disease has grown in popularity in recent years. Scholars have long observed the tendency …

Routine activities theory has been the most widely used framework to analyse the
relationship between tourism and crime. But beyond crime opportunity, other ecological and …

Objectives Examines the neighborhood-level relationship between gang graffiti and gang
violence in a large city in the western region of the US during a peak period of local gang …

Research on crime and neighborhood racial composition establishes that Black
neighborhoods with high levels of violent crime will experience an increase in Black …

This research extends the homicide literature by using latent class analysis methods to
examine the neighborhood structural and demographic characteristics of different categories …