Date of Award
5-2013
Thesis Date
5-2013
Degree Type
Honors Thesis-Unrestricted
Degree Name
B.A.
Department
Sociology
Degree Program
Sociology
Director
Pamela Jenkins
Abstract
New Orleans has had a consistently high homicide rate for around twenty years, but limited research has committed to discovering a successful solution to the pre- and post-Katrina crime problem. Prior research has been conducted to analyze whether the Southern “culture of violence,” poverty, income inequality, unemployment, gun ownership and legislation, gangs, and residential segregation affect homicide, but no study applies these factors to New Orleans. Using a case study analysis that applies these variables studied in prior research to New Orleans and information acquired from the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Uniform Crime Reports, correlations are made between homicide in New Orleans and poverty, income inequality, and residential segregation. Implications show that homicide is affected by multiple factors. All of these factors should be analyzed when homicide is the focus of the research because homicide is not a result of one or two variables.
Recommended Citation
Obioha, Tatiana, "Painting the City Red: A Close Look at the Homicide Trends of New Orleans" (2013). Senior Honors Theses. 41.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/honors_theses/41
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