Crime in Public Housing: A review of two conferences and an annotated bibliographyU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Policy Development and Research, 1979 - Crime prevention |
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Page 89 - Criminal Victimization Surveys in 13 American Cities: National Crime Panel Surveys in Boston, Buffalo. Cincinnati, Houston, Miami, Milwaukee. Minneapolis. New Orleans. Oakland, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, DC Crime in Eight American Cities: National Crime Panel Surveys in Atlanta.
Page 60 - This model security code is intended to provide planners and municipal code administrators with a structured, annotated set of security provisions which can readily be added to existing building codes.
Page 80 - ... contemporary world. Experience has demonstrated that research conducted without concern for immediate application is neither easily nor promptly put to use. Research concerned with immediate application requires throughout the research process a collaborative effort between social scientists and those who are to act upon their findings. Such collaboration creates problems of its own, for which neither partner is fully prepared by his specific training.
Page 7 - ... this monograph - one of a series of nine - extracted from the proceedings of the Fourth National Symposium on Law Enforcement Science and Technology held at Washington, DC, on May 1-3, 1972. The physical structuring of residences as a means of deterring criminal activity is discussed in several contexts, including the overall impacts of architectural design on criminal activity and the value of legislating building security codes as a deterrence factor. The need for community involvement in programs...
Page 3 - Field interviews and observations were carried out on three similar San Francisco streets with differing traffic levels to determine how traffic conditions affected the livability and quality of the street environment. All aspects of perceived...
Page 22 - Mass.) 1974 (231 pages) Graphs 18, Tables 22 The author presents the results of a 1967 national survey (covering 17 US cities) of criminal homicide, aggravated assault, forcible rape, and robbery. The objectives are to provide a unifying source of baseline data on major violent crime, to determine the extent to which the four criminal behavior systems merge, and to analyze the most clearcut national and regional patterns for the same variables used in comparable American and foreign studies. The...
Page 18 - the former Attorney General of the United States . . . spells out the facts of the problem, diagnoses the roots of antisocial behavior in American society, and proposes the specific measures the nation must take if we are to banish the causes of crime American style.
Page 13 - Seed (in conjunction with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Assistant Secretary for...