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

Contents......Page 8
Foreword, by Robert J. Sampson......Page 10
Acknowledgments......Page 16
1 Introduction and Overview......Page 20
2 Explaining Crime Hotspots: Overview and Extensions of Broken Windows and Collective Effi cacy Theories......Page 50
3 Here’s the Neighborhood: A Video Ethnographic Tour of Grand Boulevard, 2000......Page 76
4 Perceived Sources of Neighborhood Disorder......Page 99
5 Where’s the Dope At? The Need to Understand Drug Dealing from the Ground Up......Page 117
6 “I Want It, I See It, I Take It”: The Robbery Hotspots......Page 168
7 “That’s the Way We Grew Up”: The Battery Hotspots......Page 185
8 What This All Means: Summary, Conclusions, and Implications......Page 214
Appendix A: Methodological Appendix......Page 246
Appendix B: Recent Trends in Research on Broken Windows......Page 270
Appendix C: Recent Trends in Research on Collective Efficacy
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References......Page 284
Index......Page 290