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. 2009 Mar;60(1):1-31; discussion 33-8.
doi: 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01211.x.

Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: social (dis)order revisited

Robert J Sampson  1
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Disparity and diversity in the contemporary city: social (dis)order revisited

Robert J Sampson. Br J Sociol. 2009 Mar.
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Chelsea, London: Across a century
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Chelsea side street of ‘middling’ character
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Graffiti on drab building
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Abandoned car part and litter by a Mercedes across from police station entrance
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‘Street Crime Down’ figures, posted outside Chelsea Police Station
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Just metres away, a freshly broken into car
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Gentrification in action on other side of building with graffiti
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Shopper emerging with bounty of goods from Ralph Lauren
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Upmarket residences a block away on other side of Fulham Road
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Received Wisdom: disorder as a multi-purpose cause
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The social structure of perceiving disorder
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The persistence of socially perceived disorder by community
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Durable inequality: persistence in poverty across 40 years at the community area level in Chicago
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Socially perceived disorder (1995) strongly predicts later Poverty (2000) at the community level
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Interaction of socially perceived disorder and racial composition: link to later poverty is stronger in black areas than white areas
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Diversity in language predicts lower violence more in high disorder neighbourhoods than low disorder neighbourhoods, Chicago 199–2003
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