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Autore |
St. Jean Peter K. B |
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Titolo |
Pockets of crime [[electronic resource] ] : broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view / / Peter K.B. St. Jean |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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0-226-77500-3 |
1-281-96658-4 |
9786611966584 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (298 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Crime |
Criminology |
Criminal behavior |
Neighborhoods - Social aspects |
Neighborhoods - Psychological aspects |
Applied human geography |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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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 |
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