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Cultural Mechanisms and the Persistence of Neighborhood Violence
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Sociologists have given considerable attention to identifying the neighborhood-level social-interactional mechanisms that influence outcomes such as crime, educational attainment, and health. Yet, cultural mechanisms are often overlooked in quantitative studies of neighborhood effects. This paper adds a cultural dimension to neighborhood effects research by exploring the consequences of legal cynicism. Legal cynicism refers to a cultural frame in which people perceive the law as illegitimate, unresponsive, and ill equipped to ensure public safety. The authors find that legal cynicism explains why homicide persisted in certain Chicago neighborhoods during the 1990s despite declines in poverty and declines in violence city-wide.
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“Residents who refuse to seek help from the police are thought to rely on the code to dole out sanctions through violence or other informal means (Kirk and Papachristos 2011; Sampson 2012).”
From Police Violence and Citizen Crime Reporting in the Black Community (2016) · cites this paper as Kirk and Papachristos 2011
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“Previous research shows that negative encounters with law enforcement, as well as high-profile cases of police misconduct, contribute to the spread of legal cynicism within black communities (Kirk and Papachristos 2011; Sampson 2012; Weitzer 2002).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Kirk, D. S., & Papachristos, A. V.
- Venue
- American Journal of Sociology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2011-01
- Volume
- 116
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1190-1233
- ISSN
- 0002-9602
- 1537-5390
- Cited by
- 584
- References
- 2
- Language
- en
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