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concentrated disadvantage: a standalone construct

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concentrateddisadvantage1 CONSTRUCTConcentrated disadvantageSAMPSON ET AL. · 1997

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Criminology

Hardships clustering in the same neighbourhoods

Concentrated disadvantage is the clustering of multiple hardships (poverty, unemployment, family disruption, reliance on public assistance, and racial segregation) within the same neighbourhoods, and its use as a predictor of crime and other outcomes. Sampson, Raudenbush, and Earls's 1997 Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy built a concentrated-disadvantage index and showed it shapes violence largely by undermining a neighbourhood's collective efficacy. The construct captures how disadvantages co-occur and compound in place rather than acting one at a time.[1]

Unit
The degree to which multiple economic and social hardships cluster in a neighbourhood
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Built as a composite index of poverty, unemployment, public assistance, female-headed households, and segregation

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social disorganization1 fields · 2 citationsanchor · when neighbourhoods can't self-regulatecollective efficacy3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · a watchful neighborhood, or a confident groupfabric3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Sampson, R. J., Raudenbush, S. W., & Earls, F. (1997). Neighborhoods and violent crime: A multilevel study of collective efficacy. Science, 277(5328), 918–924. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.277.5328.918

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