scholarly journals L’impact des minorités bruyantes de chercheurs sur l’état du savoir scientifique. L’exemple de la racial invariance thesis dans la criminologie états-unienne

2018 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Julien Larregue
Keyword(s):  
Racial Invariance

The Racial Invariance Thesis and Neighborhood Crime

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 216-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alma A. Hernandez ◽  
María B. Vélez ◽  
Christopher J. Lyons
Keyword(s):  
Racial Disparity ◽  
Property Crime ◽  
Neighborhood Crime ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Large Cities ◽  
Urban Inequality ◽  
Unique Data ◽  
Racial Gaps ◽  
White Neighborhoods ◽  
Racial Invariance

Social scientists have long known that crime is higher in minority versus White neighborhoods. Predominant accounts of this pattern invoke a racial invariance thesis, which posits that (1) accounting for inequalities in structural disadvantages substantially diminishes ethno-racial gaps in neighborhood crime and (2) key predictors operate uniformly across neighborhoods of different ethno-racial types. Unfortunately, little work examines the second assertion of racial invariance, leaving conclusions about the thesis tentative. We address this omission with unique data from the National Neighborhood Crime Study that includes information on neighborhood levels of property and violent crime for majority White, Black, Latino, minority, and integrated neighborhoods nested within a representative sample of 87 large cities. Findings show notable similarity in the influence of key predictors of both violent and property crime across the five ethno-racial neighborhoods. When differences are detected, they are due generally to magnitude and not direction. On the whole our work provides healthy support for a perspective that traces ethno-racial disparity in crime across neighborhoods to the structural underpinnings of urban inequality.

The Racial Invariance Thesis Revisited

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
James D. Unnever ◽  
J. C. Barnes ◽  
Francis T. Cullen
Keyword(s):  
Racial Invariance
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