Informal Citizen Action and Crime Prevention at the Neighborhood Level: Synthesis and Assessment of the ResearchU.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice, 1985 - Citizens' associations - 207 pages |
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activities affect crime American Sociological Review areas associated block Brantingham burglary bystander intervention citizen cohesion community crime prevention community organizations control and crime control in neighborhood crime and fear crime prevention programs crime rates criminal justice defensible space density DuBow effect empirical evidence Environmental criminology ethnic evaluation factors family type fear of crime friendship formation Gans Greenberg homogeneity incivilities increased individual influence informal control informal interaction informal social control integration intervening variable intervention involvement Lavrakas literature low crime neighborhoods low income measures neighborhood crime neighborhood organizations neighborhood problems neighbors Newman norms participation in community participation in LVOS patrol perceived perceptions physical design police predictor reactions to crime relationship between informal residential residents responses to crime Rohe sense social characteristics social interaction social networks solidarity strangers street studies suggest surveys Suttles urban variables victimization victimization rates voluntary associations voluntary organizations Wandersman