Thesis
Crime, foreclosure, and concentrated advantage in Portland, Oregon
Washington State University
Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
05/2016
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/102695
Abstract
This study focuses on criminological theory while also drawing on ecological and spatial perspectives to examine the relationship between home foreclosures, socioeconomic factors, and property crime, net of other contextual census tract characteristics, in the city of Portland, Oregon. It assesses the effect of foreclosure on crime with data on home foreclosures from the time period of the U.S. foreclosure crisis (2007-2010), and burglary and motor vehicle theft (MVT) rates from the period directly after the crisis (2011-2014). It also tests the effect of vacancy rates, residential stability, and concentrated advantage—a factor variable comprised of tract-levels of white racial composition, college education, and median household income—on crime levels. Spatial error regression models show that foreclosures only significantly predict crime levels when using the foreclosure density measure rather than the household foreclosure rate to predict MVT rates. Unexpectedly, foreclosure density has a negative association with MVT rates. Residential stability has a consistently significant and negative effect on burglary rates. Concentrated advantage and vacancy rates, respectively, have significant negative and positive effects on MVT rates. Findings have implications for future research and policy relating to the foreclosure-crime nexus, particularly in the wake of the Great Recession.
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- Title
- Crime, foreclosure, and concentrated advantage in Portland, Oregon
- Creators
- Alana Rose Inlow
- Contributors
- Raoul S. Lievanos (Chair)Thomas Rotolo (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Sociology, Department ofJennifer Schwartz (Committee Member) - Washington State University, Sociology, Department of
- Awarding Institution
- Washington State University
- Academic Unit
- Sociology, Department of
- Theses and Dissertations
- Master of Arts (MA), Washington State University
- Publisher
- Washington State University; [Pullman, Washington] :
- Number of pages
- 81
- Identifiers
- 99900525093901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Thesis