"....Drawing on independent sets of linked data, we examine how the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic structure of neighborhoods shapes perceptions of disorder above and beyond what people see in the streets. Neighborhood racial stigma - Many Americans hold persistent beliefs linking blacks and other disadvantaged minority groups to social images, including crime, violence, disorder, welfare, and undesirability as neighbors. These beliefs are reinforced by the historical association of involuntary racial segregation with concentrated poverty--in turn linked to institutional disinvestments and neighborhood decline...." - from Sampson and Raudenbush's essay (see link below) The University of Chicago Workshop on Crime and Punishment has invited Professor Robert Sampson (Harvard University, Sociology) to present on "Neighborhood Stigma and the Perception of Disorder". For those of you in the Chicago area - Date: January 20 Time: Noon to 1:30 pm Location: University of Chicago Law School, Room C (*Laird Bell Law Quadrangle, *1111 E. 60th Street, Chicago) /Professor Sampson will present new data that builds on the ideas summarized in the essay. //Persons with a disability who believe they may need assistance, please call Clark Peters in advance at 773-256-5168./ For those of you who can attend, or just interested in the topic, this essay, "Mechanisms and Meanings of Neighborhood Disorder" by Sampson and Raudenbush (now at University of Chicago), is available at: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/crime/Sampson_paper.pdf Please see the University of Chicago Workshop on Crime and Punishment website for links to other papers, and future workshops/presenters' papers: http://cas.uchicago.edu/workshops/crime/ The Workshop also maintains an archive of past presenters' papers and a subscription email list. You can also find a link to the following paper at the Workshop website also: ROBERT J. SAMPSON & STEPHEN W.RAUDENBUSH Social Psychology Quarterly 2004,Vol. 67, No. 4, 319-342 Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of "Broken Windows"* The University of Chicago Workshop on Crime and Punishment is sponsored by the Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences and the University of Chicago Law School. -- Alice Furumoto-Dawson, Ph.D. Research Associate Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research Institute for Mind & Biology University of Chicago Chicago, IL - USA Email: [log in to unmask] http://cihdr.uchicago.edu/ ------------------- Problems/Questions? Send it to Listserv owner: [log in to unmask] To unsubscribe, send the following message in the text section -- NOT the subject header -- to [log in to unmask] SIGNOFF SDOH DO NOT SEND IT BY HITTING THE REPLY BUTTON. THIS SENDS THE MESSAGE TO THE ENTIRE LISTSERV AND STILL DOES NOT REMOVE YOU. To subscribe to the SDOH list, send the following message to [log in to unmask] in the text section, NOT in the subject header. SUBSCRIBE SDOH yourfirstname yourlastname To post a message to all 1000+ subscribers, send it to [log in to unmask] Include in the Subject, its content, and location and date, if relevant. For a list of SDOH members, send a request to [log in to unmask] To receive messages only once a day, send the following message to [log in to unmask] SET SDOH DIGEST To view the SDOH archives, go to: https://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/sdoh.html