Are Spread Out Cities Really Safer?

Michael E Lewyn, Florida Coastal School of Law

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Published at 41 Cleveland State L. Rev. 279 (1993).

Abstract

One of my first articles. A discussion of the gap between perceptions of crime and the reality of crime, noting that sprawling Sun Belt cites were erroneously perceived as safer than they really were, while older, denser northern cities were erroneously perceived as more dangerous.