Pockets of Crime
Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View
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Acknowledgments
1 Introduction and Overview
2 Explaining Crime Hotspots: Overview and Extensions of Broken Windows and Collective Efficacy Theories
3 Here’s the Neighborhood: A Video Ethnographic Tour of Grand Boulevard, 2000
4 Perceived Sources of Neighborhood Disorder
5 “Where’s the Dope At?” The Need to Understand Drug Dealing from the Ground Up
6 “I Want It, I See It, I Take It”: The Robbery Hotspots
7 “That’s the Way We Grew Up”: The Battery Hotspots
8 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
References
Index
Geography: Social and Political Geography | Urban Geography
Sociology: Criminology, Delinquency, Social Control | General Sociology | Urban and Rural Sociology
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