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Pockets of Crime - Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View (Paperback, New edition)
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Pockets of Crime - Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View (Paperback, New edition)
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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 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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