Citation

Allen CB, Feldmeyer B. J. Ethn. Crim. Justice 2022; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2022, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/15377938.2022.2118919

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Structural disadvantage has long been empirically linked to violent crime across different race/ethnic groups. More recently conceptualized as "racial invariance," observed racial differences in crime rates are hypothesized to be the result of disparities in community-level structural conditions. However, most investigations into this hypothesis have focused on urban settings, with limited attention to rural contexts. The current study seeks to fill this gap by comparing county-level structural predictors of homicide victimization for Black, White, and Latinx populations in both urban and rural communities. Consistent with the racial invariance hypothesis, findings reveal that disadvantage strongly predicts homicide across race/ethnicity in both rural and urban counties. Closer inspection of results, however, exposes noteworthy differences in the effects in rural and urban settings.

Language: en

Keywords

Crime; ethnicity; race; racial invariance; rural; structural disadvantage