The Strength of Association: Neighborhood Poverty and Social Deviance

Authors

• University of Justice Center

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Description

This issue of Anchorage Community Indicators examines the strength of association between neighborhood-level poverty in Anchorage neighborhoods— measured as the percentage of households falling below the federally designated threshold of poverty — and social deviance — measured as the annual rate of police calls-for-service for various offenses. These data show poverty to be significantly related to a number of police calls-for-service indicators. These simple measures of association (not causation) align with studies in other contexts which have found that communities experiencing economic hardship bear a double burden in that they also suffer a disproportionate amount of social problems.

Publication Date

2-13-2005

Keywords

Anchorage, AK, community indicators, crime mapping, maps, police calls for service, poverty, social deviance, spatial analysis

Recommended Citation

Justice Center, University of, "The Strength of Association: Neighborhood Poverty and Social Deviance" (2005). Series 3: Neighborhood Characteristics & Police Calls for Service (2004-2005). 3.
https://scholarworks.alaska.edu/uaa_neighborhood_chars_series3/3