Pockets of Crime : Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View

Pockets of Crime : Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View / Peter K.B. St. Jean.

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a weak sense of community among neighbors can create conditions more hospitable for criminals, and another proposes that neighbor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: St. Jean, Peter K. B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Crime.
Criminology.
Criminal behavior.
Neighborhoods > Social aspects.
Neighborhoods > Psychological aspects.
Applied human geography.
criminology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Applied human geography
Crime
Criminal behavior
Criminology
Neighborhoods > Psychological aspects
Neighborhoods > Social aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and overview
  • Explaining crime hotspots : overview and extensions of broken windows and collective efficacy theories
  • Here's the neighborhood : a video ethnographic tour of Grand Boulevard, 2000
  • Perceived sources of neighborhood disorder
  • Where's the dope at? : the need to understand drug dealing from the ground up
  • "I want it, I see it, I take it" : the robbery hotspots
  • "That's the way we grew up" : the battery hotspots
  • What this all means : summary, conclusions, and implications
  • Appendix A: Methodological appendix
  • Appendix B: Recent trends in research on broken windows
  • Appendix C: Recent trends in research on collective efficacy.

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