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Crime Factors and Neighborhood Decline in Chicago, 1979

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Principal Investigator(s): Taub, Richard; Taylor, D. Garth

Summary: This study explores the relationship between crime and neighborhood deterioration in eight neighborhoods in Chicago. The neighborhoods were selected on the basis of slowly or rapidly appreciating real estate values, stable or changing racial composition, and high or low crime rates. These data provide the results of a telephone survey administered to approximately 400 heads of households in each study neighborhood, a total of 3,310 completed interviews. The survey was designed to measure victimi... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07952.v1

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