Violent crimes in neighborhoods, especially Chicago, can impact individuals in a negative way. Being exposed to violent crime can affect people's mental health, childhood development, and future. This has a big role in defining neighborhoods, like assault and robbery and has been associated with the low income and residential instability of neighborhoods. This can be shown through the stats and characteristics, the influences on the youth, and the lasting effects of it in the Chicago area.
Neighborhood Characteristics and Crime
Neighborhoods’ types of violent crime is related to a variety of characteristics, including job access, immigration, residential instability, foreclosures, vacancy rates, and evictions. The most common characteristics, though, would include poverty, segregation and inequality.
Any type of inequality or disadvantage in a neighborhood usually results into violent crime. Studies show that neighborhoods with higher poverty rates tend to have higher rates of violent crime. For the period 2008–12, Residents in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000).
Racially segregated neighborhoods also lead to higher rates in crime. Crime from disadvantaged areas in Chicago often …show more content…
These poverty-stricken neighborhoods can endanger children's development and kids in these areas can eventually end up in bad place later in adulthood. Studies have also shown that poverty increases children's chances of witnessing domestic violence. This can cause trauma to a child's life and development and can also cause long term problems, like violence. A kid having exposure to gun violence can make him/her more insensitive and remorseless. This can increase the chances they act in this behavior in the
Neighborhood Characteristics and Crime
Neighborhoods’ types of violent crime is related to a variety of characteristics, including job access, immigration, residential instability, foreclosures, vacancy rates, and evictions. The most common characteristics, though, would include poverty, segregation and inequality.
Any type of inequality or disadvantage in a neighborhood usually results into violent crime. Studies show that neighborhoods with higher poverty rates tend to have higher rates of violent crime. For the period 2008–12, Residents in poor households at or below the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) (39.8 per 1,000) had more than double the rate of violent victimization as persons in high-income households (16.9 per 1,000).
Racially segregated neighborhoods also lead to higher rates in crime. Crime from disadvantaged areas in Chicago often …show more content…
These poverty-stricken neighborhoods can endanger children's development and kids in these areas can eventually end up in bad place later in adulthood. Studies have also shown that poverty increases children's chances of witnessing domestic violence. This can cause trauma to a child's life and development and can also cause long term problems, like violence. A kid having exposure to gun violence can make him/her more insensitive and remorseless. This can increase the chances they act in this behavior in the