{"id":8561,"date":"2016-12-21T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=8561"},"modified":"2016-12-21T15:53:20","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T15:53:20","slug":"extending-the-crime-scene-into-the-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2016\/12\/21\/extending-the-crime-scene-into-the-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2016: Extending the “Crime Scene” into the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Johanna Lacoe and Patrick Sharkey, <\/span>“Life in a Crime Scene: Stop, Question, and Frisk Activity in \tNew York City Neighborhoods in the Aftermath of Homicides,” Sociological Science<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2016<\/span><\/div>\n
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Incidents of extreme violence impact both the victim and the perpetrator, but they also affect the greater community in terms of things like increased fear of crime\u00a0and negative impacts on child development. Johanna Lacoe and Patrick Sharkey detail another key mechanism by which the neighborhood social climate is altered by violent events: the increased interaction of law enforcement and community residents via stop, question, and frisk activity after a violent crime. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div> Using data from the NYPD on stop and frisk activity and homicide, as well as U.S. Census data on neighborhood demographics, the authors examine the relationship between neighborhood homicides and subsequent police activity. They find that block groups where a homicide is committed experience\u00a0a 70% increase in stop and frisk events relative to the stop and frisk activity a week before the homicide. This association holds even adjusting for neighborhood characteristics, such as racial\/ethnic composition and poverty rate, the time of year the homicide occurred, and the precinct responsible for the homicide response. Further, Lacoe and Sharkey find that the increase in stop and frisk activity is higher in neighborhoods defined as \u201chigh crime\u201d (90% increase vs. 68%). However, the increased levels of stop and frisk in both \u201chigh crime\u201d and \u201cnot high crime\u201d neighborhoods is experienced predominantly in majority black and majority Hispanic neighborhoods. The researchers find no difference in stop and frisk activity before and after a homicide in predominantly white neighborhoods.\u00a0 \u00a0Not only are communities of color more likely to experience violence in their\u00a0communities, but they are also more likely to experience more\u00a0stop and frisk activity that extends the range of the \u201ccrime scene\u201d into the greater community. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This study illustrates how both the violence a neighborhood experiences and the responses to that\u00a0violence are disproportionately distributed within the city. Not only are communities of color more likely to experience violence in their\u00a0communities, but they are also more likely to experience more\u00a0stop and frisk activity that extends the range of the \u201ccrime scene\u201d into the greater community. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johanna Lacoe and Patrick Sharkey, “Life in a Crime Scene: Stop, Question, and Frisk Activity in New York City Neighborhoods in the Aftermath of Homicides,” Sociological Science, 2016 Incidents of extreme violence impact both the victim and the perpetrator, but they also affect the greater community in terms of things like increased fear of crime\u00a0and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,13,14],"tags":[37293,37337,37332,37333,22865],"class_list":["post-8561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-inequality","category-race","tag-community-violence","tag-crime","tag-inequality","tag-race","tag-stop-and-frisk"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8561"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8679,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8561\/revisions\/8679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}