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Neighbourhood Structures and Crime: The Influence of Tenure Mix and Other Structural Factors upon Local Crime Rates

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  • Mark Livingston
  • Ade Kearns
  • Jon Bannister

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Public policy in the UK has used housing tenure diversification to achieve social mix in deprived areas. Such 'mixed communities' are thought to be more cohesive and sustainable, with reduced crime and antisocial behaviour. However, the articulation of the link between tenure mix and crime is weak and the evidence unclear. Using geocoded crime data for Glasgow for 2001 and 2008 alongside neighbourhood structural data, including tenure mix, this paper examines the influence of neighbourhood structural factors upon annual crime rates as well as upon changing crime rates. Although crime rates are patterned by local tenure structures, the direct effects are not large. The strongest associations with local crime rates are for income deprivation levels and the number of alcohol outlets in an area. Although housing tenure structures play a part in influencing local crime rates, it may be more a result of sorting effects than neighbourhood effects.

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  • Mark Livingston & Ade Kearns & Jon Bannister, 2014. "Neighbourhood Structures and Crime: The Influence of Tenure Mix and Other Structural Factors upon Local Crime Rates," Housing Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 29(1), pages 1-25, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:chosxx:v:29:y:2014:i:1:p:1-25
    DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2014.848267
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    1. Yung Yau, 2020. "Direct and Indirect Impacts of Housing Tenure Mix on Antisocial Behavior: A Study of Hong Kong’s Private Housing Communities," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(7), pages 1-15, July.
    2. Breetzke, G.D. & Pearson, A.L., 2015. "Socially disorganized yet safe: Understanding resilience to crime in neighborhoods in New Zealand," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 43(6), pages 444-452.
    3. Airaksinen, Jaakko & Aaltonen, Mikko & Tarkiainen, Lasse & Martikainen, Pekka & Latvala, Antti, 2021. "Associations of neighborhood disadvantage and offender concentration with criminal behavior: Between-within analysis in Finnish registry data," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    4. Bunting, W.C., 2020. "Does increased access to home mortgage money reduce local crime rates? Evidence from San Diego County," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 84(C).

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