This review provides an opportunity to assess the current state of gang research and
suggest directions for its future. There has been a dramatic increase in research on gangs …

In 1995, Sampson & Wilson assessed the state of knowledge on race and violence and set
forth an approach for future research. We review macrostructural analyses of race, ethnicity …

More than half a century after the first Jim Crow laws were dismantled, the majority of urban
neighborhoods in the United States remain segregated by race. The degree of social and …

Recent research on identity, culture, and violence in inner-city communities describes a
black youth culture, or street code, that influences adolescent behavior, particularly violent …

In “Toward a Theory of Race, Crime, and Urban Inequality,” Sampson and Wilson (1995)
argued that racial disparities in violent crime are attributable in large part to the persistent …

The article presents a meta-analysis of studies—yielding 26 independent samples of
subjects—on the relationship between exposure to media violence and violent aggression …

In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of social disorganization, including
recent immigration, and other predictors on community counts of black and Latino motive …

Objectives The objective of this study is to advance knowledge on racial/ethnic disparities in
violence and the structural sources of those disparities. We do so by extending scarce and …

This research extends a 1990 study by Land, McCall, and Cohen on the structural covariates
of homicide rates. Examining neighborhoods in St. Louis, this study assesses whether …

One of the vexing problems of criminology is the search for valid and reliable measures of
offending and victimization. Gang research has been plagued by similar concerns. This …