Perceived Racial and Ethnic Composition of Neighborhood and Perceived Risk of Crime

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Diversity and Homophily at Work: Supportive Relations Among White and African-American Peers (2004, background): “According to Cohen et al. (2003), although nonnormally distributed residuals do not affect the coefficients themselves, such nonnormality may, but need not, affect the interpretation of the confidence intervals.”
Economic Insecurity, Blame, and Punitive Attitudes (2005, unknown): “The same authors also establish the clear relevance of ethnicity for the threat paradigm (Chiricos et al., 2001, pp. 333–337), which others have similarly recognized (Steffensmeier & Demuth, 2001).”
AN EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE “THREAT OF VICTIMIZATION:” CONSIDERING FEAR OF CRIME, PERCEIVED RISK, AVOIDANCE, AND DEFENSIVE BEHAVIORS (2007, background): “1998), while others find that those with lower levels of income and education have higher levels of perceived risk (Chiricos et al. 2000).”
Racial Context and Police Force Size: Evaluating the Empirical Validity of the Minority Threat Perspective1 (2007, background): “, Moeller 1989; Quillian and Pager 2001) and, in fact, that black fear was not significantly related to racial composition (Chiricos et al. 1997; Chiricos et al. 2001).”
The typification of Hispanics as criminals and support for punitive crime control policies (2011, background): “It does appear that perceptions about the relative size of black populations are just as influential as actual values on perceived risk of crime (Chiricos et al., 2001).”