Neighborhoods and Ethnic-Specific Intimate and Non-intimate Assaults in Miami.

This paper examines neighborhood-level predictors of ethnic-specific intimate and non-intimate aggravated assaults. In particular, social disorganization theory, including the role of recent immigration, is used to examine community counts of disaggregated aggravated assaults that were reported to the police in the city of Miami, Florida. Neighborhood predictors (based on 2000 Census data) of ethnic-specific counts of intimate (i.e., between a current or previously sexually intimate partner) and non-intimate (i.e., other offenses) aggravated assaults are examined and compared for African Americans, Latinos, and Haitians residing in Miami. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]