Neighborhood Racial Composition and Gun Homicides

Chaeyoung Cheon; Yuzhou Lin; David J Harding; Wei Wang; Dylan S Small

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27591

Neighborhood Racial Composition and Gun Homicides

JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Nov 2;3(11):e2027591. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.27591.

Authors

Chaeyoung Cheon¹, Yuzhou Lin¹, David J Harding², Wei Wang¹, Dylan S Small¹

Affiliations

¹ Departmentof Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
² Departmentof Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley.

Abstract

This cross-sectional study examines disparities in gun homicide rates among neighborhoods of different racial composition for fixed levels of socioeconomic status.

MeSH terms

Adult
Black or African American / statistics & numerical data
Cross-Sectional Studies
Firearms / legislation & jurisprudence*
Firearms / statistics & numerical data
Gun Violence / ethnology*
Gun Violence / prevention & control
Gun Violence / statistics & numerical data
Homicide / ethnology*
Homicide / prevention & control
Homicide / statistics & numerical data
Humans
Observational Studies as Topic
Poverty / prevention & control
Racial Groups / ethnology*
Racial Groups / statistics & numerical data
Residence Characteristics / classification
Social Class
United States / epidemiology