Pockets of crime [electronic resource] : broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view /

St. Jean, Peter K. B.

Pockets of crime broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view / [electronic resource] : Peter K.B. St. Jean. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007. - xviii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.


Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2009.
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Crime.
Criminology.
Criminal behavior.
Neighborhoods--Social aspects.
Neighborhoods--Psychological aspects.
Applied human geography.


Electronic books.

HV6177 / .S8 2007eb

364.2

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