Economic hardship, racial segregation, social isolation, joblessness, and other forms of underinvestment in communities contribute to high violent crime rates. Socioeconomic disadvantage is particularly concentrated in Black neighborhoods. The sociologist Lauren K. Krivo and her colleagues created an index of socioeconomic disadvantage to study over 8,000 neighborhoods in 71 cities. They found that “[a]lmost all More

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