Neighborhood Crime

Objectives: To examine possible effects of housing foreclosure on neighbor-hood levels of crime and to assess temporal lags in the impact of foreclosure on neighborhood levels of crime.Methods: Longitudinal data from Glendale, Arizona, a city at the epicenter of the nation’s foreclosure problem. The authors rely on four data sources: (1) foreclosure data, (2) computer-aided dispatch (CAD)/police records management system (RMS) data, (3) U.S. census and census estimate data, and (4) land use data. Results: Foreclo-sure has a short-term impact, typically no more than 3 months, on tota