Neighborhoods and Community Safety
Over the past decades, globalization, immigration, technology, crime, and other social, economic, and political forces have radically altered urban life. Faculty in this area attempt to understand the real-world sources and consequences of urban poverty and problems that cities and urban dwellers face, from education and housing to policing and segregation.
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Working Papers
Recently published articles and working papers in this program area include:
Felipe Gonçalves, Elisa Jácome, and Emily Weisburst. 2024. Immigration Enforcement and Public Safety (WP-24-06).
Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres. 2023. Law-Abiding Immigrants: The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1870–2020 (WP-23-26).
David Hureau, Theodore Wilson, Hilary Jackl, Jalon Arthur, Christopher Patterson, and Andrew Papachristos . 2022. Exposure to Gun Violence Among the Population of Chicago Community Violence Interventionists (WP-22-12).
Faculty Experts
Political scientists, sociologists, education and social policy experts, and other social scientists come together to study topics associated with the urban landscape and its communities.
Events
Improving Neighborhoods to Improve Lives: Re-Imagining the Power of Place
Although the U.S. poverty rate was cut in half between 1959 and 2022, it remains stubbornly high at 11.5%, leaving nearly 40 million Americans—about one in 10—living below the poverty line. Research has shown those who live in the most impoverished neighborhoods in the U.S. are sicker and more stressed than those who live in well-off ones. They also see more violence, attend worse schools, and die at much younger ages. However, efforts to revitalize America’s poverty-stricken neighborhoods are many, including government-funded programs and private-public partnerships.
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Join our panel of experts in Washington, D.C. as they examine what’s working to improve America’s most at-risk neighborhoods by curbing violence, creating opportunity, and improving housing and education.