Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship

Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship

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Main Author: Myer, Andrew James
Language:English
Published: University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK 2010
Subjects:
Criminology
Threat
Benign Neglect
Crime-Arrest Relationship
Direct Measurement
Aggregation Bias
Online Access:http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282318518
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spelling ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin12823185182021-08-03T06:14:20Z Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship Myer, Andrew James Criminology Threat Benign Neglect Crime-Arrest Relationship Direct Measurement Aggregation Bias A guiding theory often used by criminologist to examine the application of social control is the conflict perspective. This perspective asserts that social control is used as a tool to protect elite segments of society. The conflict theory posits an increase in social control when elite groups are threatened, the threat hypothesis. While the benign neglect hypothesis predicts a decrease in crime control when the population under threat is a non-elite population. One of the main concerns of this paper is to address limitations in the oft studied threat hypothesis and the understudied benign neglect hypothesis.Two limitations of previous studies of conflict hypotheses are (1) lack of a direct measure of threat and (2) aggregation bias. This research will employ a more direct measure of a threatening event: the displacement of citizens to Houston, Texas, by Hurricane Katrina, moving beyond the reliance between the correlation of structural antecedents and social control. This research will also investigate aggregation bias by evaluating conflict hypotheses at a level below the city—the traditional unit of analysis of past research. To this end, this research will use time series analysis to directly account for social control pre- and post-displacement to determine if any changes in the administration of social control occurred as a result of the displacement.Finally, this paper also attempts to examine the role that social context plays in the reciprocal relationship between crimes and arrests. Past research on the crime arrest relationship has been mixed. Cross sectional designs often corroborate predictions of economic theory, while the more rigorous time series designs fail to provide similar results. Recent research suggests that the social context of an area may exert an influence on this relationship. To this end, this investigation will employ bivariate time series techniques to examine the role that social context plays in the reciprocal relationship between crimes and arrests. 2010-12-06 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282318518 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1282318518 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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topic Criminology
Threat
Benign Neglect
Crime-Arrest Relationship
Direct Measurement
Aggregation Bias
spellingShingle Criminology
Threat
Benign Neglect
Crime-Arrest Relationship
Direct Measurement
Aggregation Bias
Myer, Andrew James
Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship
author Myer, Andrew James
author_facet Myer, Andrew James
author_sort Myer, Andrew James
title Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship
title_short Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship
title_full Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship
title_fullStr Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship
title_full_unstemmed Hurricane Katrina, Citizen Displacement, and Social Control: A Test of the Threat and Benign Neglect Hypotheses and an Investigation of the Crime-Arrest Relationship
title_sort hurricane katrina, citizen displacement, and social control: a test of the threat and benign neglect hypotheses and an investigation of the crime-arrest relationship
publisher University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK
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