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Book Reviews DIVERGENT SOCIAL WORLDS:NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME AND THE RACIAL-SPATIAL DIVIDE,by Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2010. ISBN: 978–0-87154–693-7; 157 pp. Reviewed by Charis E. Kubrin University of California, Irvine For those interested in studying the linkage of race, place, and crime, Peterson and Krivo have become household names. Over the years, this duo has published at least a dozen significant studies that articulate the sources of ethnic and racial residential segregation in the United States and explain how it is linked with structurally inequitable neighbor- hood environments for whites, African Americans, Latinos, and others. Divergent Social Worlds reflects a culmination of decades of work in this area combined with years of data collection and sophisticated analyses, all of which document how the increasingly promi- nent role of place and the continuing role of race, coupled with the effects of policy, largely account for racial and ethnic differences in crime. As the title suggests, the book’s organizing concept is the racial-spatial divide—an ar- rangement in which racial inequality in social and economic circumstances and power in society is combined with segregated and unequal residential locations across racial and ethnic groups. The racial-spatial divide is hierarchical, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png City and Community SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© 2012 American Sociological Association
ISSN
1535-6841
eISSN
1540-6040
DOI
10.1111/j.1540-6040.2011.01389.x
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DIVERGENT SOCIAL WORLDS:NEIGHBORHOOD CRIME AND THE RACIAL-SPATIAL DIVIDE,by Ruth D. Peterson and Lauren J. Krivo. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2010. ISBN: 978–0-87154–693-7; 157 pp. Reviewed by Charis E. Kubrin University of California, Irvine For those interested in studying the linkage of race, place, and crime, Peterson and Krivo have become household names. Over the years, this duo has published at least a dozen significant studies that articulate the sources of ethnic and racial residential segregation in the United States and explain how it is linked with structurally inequitable neighbor- hood environments for whites, African Americans, Latinos, and others. Divergent Social Worlds reflects a culmination of decades of work in this area combined with years of data collection and sophisticated analyses, all of which document how the increasingly promi- nent role of place and the continuing role of race, coupled with the effects of policy, largely account for racial and ethnic differences in crime. As the title suggests, the book’s organizing concept is the racial-spatial divide—an ar- rangement in which racial inequality in social and economic circumstances and power in society is combined with segregated and unequal residential locations across racial and ethnic groups. The racial-spatial divide is hierarchical,

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Published: Mar 1, 2012

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