The Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Routine and Gang-Involved Gun Violence: Are Structural Covariates Salient?
The Impact of Neighborhood Characteristics on Routine and Gang-Involved Gun Violence: Are Structural Covariates Salient?
Dana Stripling Rick Dierenfeldt Grant Drawve Christina Policastro Gale Iles a University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN, USAb University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, NC, USADana Stripling is a graduate of the MSCJ program in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research interests include subcultural violence and gun crime.Rick Dierenfeldt is a UC Foundation Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His research interests include the intersection of structure, culture, race, gender, and crime, as well as policy evaluation in the fields of policing and corrections. His most recent publications have appeared in Police Quarterly, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, and Journal of Criminal Justice.Grant Drawve is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology and Associate Director of the Crime and Security Data Analytics Lab (CASDAL) at the University of Arkansas. Before joining UA, Grant was a Post-Doc at Rutgers University with a dual appointment between the School of Criminal Justice and Department of Psychology. His background focuses on the spatio-temporal patterns of crime and public health related issues. His research interest include: crime analysis, environmental criminology, neighborhoods and crime, secondary data analysis, recidivism, and public health.Christina Policastro is a UC Foundation Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her primary research interests are in the area of victimization with a specific focus on elder abuse and intimate partner violence. She has published articles on diverse topics including perceptions of intimate partner violence victims, pre-professionals’ knowledge of elder abuse, and trajectories of recurring victimization among persons with serious mental illness. Her recent work appears in the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Journal of Criminal Justice Education, and Journal of Elder Abuse & Neglect.Gale Iles is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research interests lie in sentencing practices, particularly the identification and examination of unwarranted sentencing disparities and racial and ethnic inequalities in the administration of justice. She has also done work in the areas of comparative cross-national crime and delinquency. Her most recent works have appeared in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology and the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.