Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy : Neighborhoods and Crime in Miami 9781498517478, 9781498517461

Neighborhoods and Crime 9780739158128, 9780669246315

This book is an excellent resource in examining the influence that community control can have on crime.

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Youth Involvement in Crime : The Importance of Locus of Control and Collective Efficacy [1 ed.] 9781593326333, 9781593325268

Ahlin uses data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods to examine the independent relationships

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Crime Reduction and Community Safety: Labour and the Politics of Local Crime Control 1843922517, 9781843922513

This book analyses Labour's policies of local crime control from 1997 through to 2006. Picking up on the Conservati

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Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View 9780226775005

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault occur much more frequently on some

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Collective Efficacy Theory and Perceptions of Crime : Documenting Neighborhood Context Effects [1 ed.] 9781593327965, 9781593327675

Battin tests collective efficacy theory by accounting for additional measures of informal social control and social ties

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Crime and the Community 9780231880466

Explores how criminals are created and treated within the American community. Specifically addresses criminal patterns,

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Collective Morality and Crime in the Americas 9781136229145, 9780415529815

This study examines the ways in which the moral community is "talked into being" in relation to crime, and the

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Trafficking and Global Crime Control 9781412935579

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Refocusing Crime Prevention: Collective Action and the Quest for Community [1 ed.] 9781442684768, 9780802084200

Using thorough ethnographic research, Stephen Schneider identifies, comprehensively details, and critically examines the

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Refocusing Crime Prevention: Collective Action and the Quest for Community 9781442684768

Using thorough ethnographic research, Stephen Schneider identifies, comprehensively details, and critically examines the

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