Chapter 5. Neighborhoods, Social Interactions, and Crime: What Does the Evidence Show?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Part I. People and Places: Heath, Education, and Safety
6. Chapter 1. Health and Residential Location 3
7. Chapter 2. The Place of Race in Health Disparities: How Family Background and Neighborhood Conditions in Childhood Impact Later-Life Health 18
8. Chapter 3. Educational Interventions: Their Effects on the Achievement of Poor Children 37
9. Chapter 4. Before or After the Bell? School Context and Neighborhood Effects on Student Achievement 50
10. Chapter 5. Neighborhoods, Social Interactions, and Crime: What Does the Evidence Show? 73
11. Chapter 6. Daily Activities and Violence in Community Landscapes 89
12. Part II. Geographies of Opportunity
13. Chapter 7. Exploring Changes in Low-Income Neighborhoods in the 1990s 103
14. Chapter 8. Reinventing Older Communities Through Mixed-Income Development: What Are We Learning from Chicago’s Public Housing Transformation? 122
15. Chapter 9. Reinventing Older Communities: Does Place Matter? 140
16. Part III. Moving People Out of Poverty
17. Chapter 10. An Overview of Moving to Opportunity: A Random Assignment Housing Mobility Study in Five U.S. Cities 163
18. Chapter 11. How Does Leaving High-Poverty Neighborhoods Affect the Employment Prospects of Low-Income Mothers and Youth? Evidence from the Moving to Opportunity Experiment 179
19. Chapter 12. Teens, Mental Health, and Moving to Opportunity 204
20. Chapter 13. Changing the Geography of Opportunity by Helping Poor Households Move Out of Concentrated Poverty: Neighborhood Effects and Policy Design 221
21. Part IV. Segregation: The Power of Place
22. Chapter 14. Are Mixed Neighborhoods Always Unstable? Two-Sided and One-Sided Tipping 237
23. Chapter 15. Preferences for Hispanic Neighborhoods 257
24. Chapter 16. Increasing Diversity and the Future of U.S. Housing Segregation 271
25. Chapter 17. Understanding Racial Segregation: What Is Known About the Effect of Housing Discrimination? 288
26. Notes 303
27. Bibliography 317
28. List of Contributors 351
29. Index 357
30. Acknowledgments 369