Two Sides of the Same Dream

• In Event: Empirical Advances in Critical Criminology

Abstract

This exploration will critique and extend Institutional Anomie Theory (IAT) by embedding the theory in a racial structural perspective at the neighborhood-level. Differences across cultural groups, divergent structural conditions, and disparities in serious crime rates are examined across ethno-racial residential segregated neighborhoods. This mixed methods analysis will conduct focus groups and hierarchical linear models to test and extend IAT. Implications are also discussed.

Author

• Jazmine Talley, American University