Urban politics, crime rates, and police strength / / Thomas D. Stucky

• Autore: Stucky Thomas Dain
• Pubblicazione: New York, : LFB Scholarly Publishing, 2005
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.2/0973
• Soggetto topico: Police - United States; Crime - United States - Public opinion; Crime prevention - United States - Finance; Local government - United States - Citizen participation; Police - Recruiting - United States; Police-community relations - United States; Community policing - United States - Regional disparities
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Extant research on crime and police strength -- Institutional resources, crime, and police strength -- Study methodology -- Urban politics and crime -- Urban politics and police strength -- City politics and criminal justice.
• Sommario/riassunto: Stucky argues, using insights from political resource theory, that the local political context (form of government, city council structure and partisanship of elections) affects the ability of citizens to make their concerns heard in local government and, consequently, their ability to organize against crime. Additionally, he argues that local political systems that are more susceptible to citizen pressure will have relatively more police. These hypotheses are tested on U.S. cities with 25,000 or more residents in 1991. Results suggest that the effect of social disorganization on crime rates depends on the local political system. Results also suggest that the relative size of police departments in 1991 varies by local political context.
• Titolo autorizzato: Urban politics, crime rates, and police strength
• ISBN: 1-59332-170-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910971718603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)