commment responding to this discussion The article “Neighborhoods…

Question Answered step-by-step commment responding to this discussion The article “Neighborhoods…  commment responding to this discussion      The article “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime” highlights key correlations between low income neighborhoods and violent crimes committed in those areas. Although there is a definite correlation that persists throughout the country. There is no confusion in the article between causation and correlation as the correlation is specified. However, there is no specific causation as there are low income neighborhoods that have poverty rates. Or that naturally neighborhoods with violent crimes do not need to be low income to have high rates. Similarly, impoverished neighborhoods do not have violent crimes only due to the variable of being low income. Other variables include “poverty, segregation, and inequality; collective efficacy, disorder, trust, and institutions; job access; immigration; residential instability, foreclosures, vacancy rates, and evictions; land use and the built environment; neighborhood change; and location of housing assistance” (Neighborhoods and Violent, n.d.). As continued, “These characteristics can be both the cause and result of violent crime” (Neighborhoods and Violent, n.d.). An example of how the two are correlated but do not cause each other is the fact that “African Americans are disproportionately victims of homicide compared with whites or Hispanics” even though the demographic of people that commit the majority of crimes are white. ReferencesNeighborhoods and Violent Crime: HUD USER. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.huduser.gov/portal/periodicals/em/summer16/highlight2.html  Math Statistics and Probability MAT 200 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)