Estimating exposure to neighborhood crime by race and ethnicity for public health research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Police-reported crime data (hereafter "crime") is routinely used as a psychosocial stressor in public health research, yet few studies have jointly examined (a) differences in crime exposure based on participant race and ethnicity, (b) differences in measures of crime exposure, and (c) considerations for how exposure to police is captured in police-recorded crime data. We estimate neighborhood exposure to crime and discuss the implications of structural differences in exposure to crime and police based on race and ethnicity.

Methods

Using GPS coordinates from 1188 participants in the Newborn Epigenetics Study, we estimated gestational exposure to crime provided by the Durham, North Carolina, Police Department within (a) 800 m and (b) the Census block group of resi

SUBMITTER: Lodge EK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8183080 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature