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

St. Jean, Peter K. B.

 
9780226774992: Pockets of Crime: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226774996 ISBN 13: 9780226774992
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

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 neighborhood disorder—such as broken windows and boarded-up buildings—makes crime more likely. But in his innovative new study, Peter K. B. St. Jean argues that we cannot fully understand the impact of these factors without considering that, because urban space is unevenly developed, different kinds of crimes occur most often in locations that offer their perpetrators specific advantages.

Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and extensive interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city’s highest-crime areas, St. Jean demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers, for example, are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets. By accounting for these important factors of spatial positioning, he expands upon previous research to provide the most comprehensive explanation available of why crime occurs where it does.

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Peter K. B. St. Jean is assistant professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226774996
ISBN 13 
9780226774992
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296
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