This week we will focus on how to overcome community disorder. We will explore two research articles dealing with this topic. They offer two different solutions, and we will discuss how we can see our communities moving forward.
Oscar Reyes
Professor Margaryan
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The neighborhood I am going to report is Longwood in the South Bronx. According to the NYC Population fact finder in 2020, 71.4% of the population is Hispanic, and 23.8% is black/African American, the …
I moved to Astoria almost seven years ago. The reason why I live here is because I feel close to my second home, which is Greece. It is still a Greek-populated neighborhood, and I can find many Greek products or …
In 2019, Bedford Stuyvesant had a homeownership rate of 18.4%, which was lower than the city’s overall proportion of 31.9%. Since 2010, the neighborhood’s homeownership rate has dropped by 2.0 percentage points. In 2020, the neighborhood’s owner-occupied 1-4 family homes, …
Zhang, H., Zahnow, R., Liu, Y., & Corcoran, J. (2022). Crime at train stations: The role of passenger presence. Applied Geography, 140, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2022.102666
In the text that we could read, we can see and realize that …
https://www-sciencedirect-com.bmcc.ezproxy.cuny.edu/science/article/pii/S0967070X21000974
The article illustrated how the pandemic impacted our transportation system with particular attention paid to the MTA and Citybike. During Covid, people avoided the subway because of fear of close contact with other individuals and shifted instead to a …
Tomorrow (4/25), instead of our regular class, I invite you to the opening ceremony of Social Justice Week: https://www.bmcc.cuny.edu/event/social-justice-week-opening-ceremony/
Find me there to sign in (I will try to look for you). Stay until the end (3 pm) to have …
This week we are switching gears and focusing on the twin issues that have been plaguing our cities and suburbs/exurbs: the red-lining and the white flight. We will look at the historical trends in housing discrimination and will study …
Melanie Fernandez
Please see the attached flyer and register to participate in this exciting opportunity for our students:
Flier-Criminal-Justice-Career-Event-F-4-27-23Welcome back from Spring Break! I hope you found some time to relax and catch up on sleep. This week we will be discussing gentrification in urban communities (which is of interest to so many of you). Please find all …
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime incidents number in different cities – Miaomiao Hou, Zhaolong Zeng, Xiaofeng Hu, Jinming Hu
In this article, the narrators create a connection between COVID-19 and crime. The reason is that after …
This week we will focus on gentrification, the concept that we turned to from time to time. The term “gentrification” was originally coined in the 1960s by Ruth Glass to describe the transformation of working-class London neighborhoods into middle …
This week, we will conclude the discussion of Victor Rios’ book Punished. We will discuss the book’s methods and conclusions. We will also discuss how we can solve the issues outlined in his book. Does the author provide solutions?
The first article I will be using in my project is:
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