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作者

来源

URBAN GEOGRAPHY,Vol.39,Issue8,P.1195-1220

语言

英文

关键字

Crime; race; segregation; South Africa; SOCIAL-DISORGANIZATION THEORY; ROUTINE ACTIVITY; VIOLENT CRIME; NEIGHBORHOODS; INEQUALITY; HOMICIDE; LEVEL; CITY; DETERMINANTS; PERSPECTIVE

作者单位

[Breetzke, Gregory D.] Univ Pretoria, Dept Geog Geoinformat & Meteorol, Pretoria, South Africa. Breetzke, GD (reprint author), Univ Pretoria, Dept Geog Geoinformat & Meteorol, Pretoria, South Africa. E-Mail: greg.breetzke@up.ac.za

摘要

Crime inequality in neighborhoods by race is blamed on social inequalities borne out of segregation and economic discrimination. South Africa is a country synonymous with racial-spatial segregation and discrimination as a result of legislatively enforced policies of the former apartheid government. This study examines whether urban crime inequalities by race exist in the city of Tshwane, South Africa and identifies the empirical causes of these crime inequalities. Violent and sexual crime was found to concentrate in Black African neighborhoods, while property crime was concentrated in neighborhoods classified as Mixed. The causes of crime in neighborhoods were found to vary across racial groups with results suggesting non-uniformity in the extent to which the various constructs impact crime based on race. The results challenge the notion that segregation and economic discrimination uniformly impacts affected communities. Explanations for the findings are provided in the context of an increasingly eclectic post-apartheid South African city.