Erica
Bryant. "PSTD in Some City Children Can Be Worse than in Iraq
Soldiers." Democrat and Chronicle, May 18, 2013.
Frederick
Douglass. Narrative of The Life of The Life of Frederick
Douglass, An American Slave. New York: The Library of
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http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/poverty-as-a-childhood-disease/
Alex
Kotlowitz. "The Price of Public Violence." The New York Times,
February 23, 2013.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/the-price-of-public-violence.html?pagewanted=all
Tiffany
Lankes. "Rescuing Rochester's Children: Three Paths for Young
Black Men." Democrat & Chronicle, December 2, 2012.
Report of
the Attorney General's National Task Force on Children Exposed
to Violence.
December 12,
2012
http://www.justice.gov/defendingchildhood/cev-rpt-full.pdf
Children
exposed to violence are more likely to abuse drugs and alcohol;
suffer from depression, anxiety, and post-traumatic disorders;
fail or have difficulty in school; and become delinquent and
engage in criminal behavior.
Sixty
percent of American children were exposed to violence, crime, or
abuse in their homes, schools, and communities.
Almost 40
percent of American children were direct victims of two or more
violent acts, and one in ten were victims of violence five or
more times.
Children are
more likely to be exposed to violence and crime than adults.
Almost one
in ten American children saw one family member assault another
family member, and more than 25 percent had been exposed to
family violence during their life.
A child's
exposure to one type of violence increases the likelihood that
the child will be exposed to other types of violence and exposed
multiple times.
*Finkelhor,
D., Turner, H., Ormrod, R., Hamby, S., and Kracke, K. 2009.
Children's Exposure to Violence: A Comprehensive National
Survey. Bulletin. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice,
Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention.http://www.justice.gov/defendingchildhood/task-force.html
"Rich
Blocks, Poor Blocks: A map of income and rent in every
neighborhood in every city in America."
2007-2011
American Community Survey.
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http://www.richblockspoorblocks.com/
"Rochester
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Office of the New York State Comptroller, Thomas P. DiNapoli,
Released March 4, 2013.
http://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/mar13/030413.htm
With 25.8
percent of Rochester households living in poverty "the highest
rate in the state" and its population declining 37 percent since
1950, the city must solve serious fiscal obstacles in the coming
years, a state report released Monday says."
"Report
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Thomas Adams. Rochester Business Journal, March 4, 2013.
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from What
are the takeaways from this data (Criminal Justice data)
Violent
crime is about 10% more concentrated in majority black
neighborhoods that would be expected in majority black
neighborhoods if violent crime was randomly distributed across
all census tracts regardless of racial composition.
In other
words, census tracts with a majority black population have
higher levels of violent crime than census tracts with a
non-majority black population.
Homicides in
Rochester continue to largely result from young black males (16
" 35 years old) shooting other young black males. In 2012, 32 of
the 36n homicide victims were 35 years old or younger.
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