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Causes and Prevention of Crime | Criminology | Sociology | Human Geography not elsewhere classified | Urban Sociology and Community Studies | Urban Sociology And Community Studies | Police Administration, Procedures and Practice | Human Geography | Sociology Not Elsewhere Classified | Social Change | Criminology |
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Expanding Knowledge through Studies of Human Society | Urban Planning | Justice and the law not elsewhere classified | Work not elsewhere classified | Community services not elsewhere classified | Employment | Other social development and community services | Criminal Justice | Crime Prevention | Social Class and Inequalities | Public Services Policy Advice and Analysis | Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design
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Old age and fear of crime: cross-national evidence for a decreased impact of neighbourhood disadvantage in older age
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 18-12-2020
DOI: 10.1017/S0144686X20001683
Abstract: Fear of crime among older people has been a frequent topic in ageing research, criminology and urban studies. The ‘environmental docility hypothesis’ assumes that older people are more vulnerable to adverse neighbourhood conditions than younger age groups. Yet, few studies have tested this influential hypothesis using s les of respondents covering the complete adult lifespan. Looking at fear of crime, we investigated the person–environment interaction of age and neighbourhood disadvantage, using two independent surveys comprising 12,620 respondents aged 25–90 years residing in 435 neighbourhoods in four cities in Germany and Australia. We used multi-level analysis and cross-level interactions to model age-differential effects of neighbourhood disadvantage on fear. Contrary to the hypothesis, we found a weakening of neighbourhood effects on fear with age. The strong effect of neighbourhood disadvantage on fear of crime dropped by around half from the youngest (25 years) to the oldest age (90 years) in both countries. Younger people were almost as fearful as older people in the most disadvantaged neighbourhoods, but older people were considerably more fearful than younger ages in better-off neighbourhoods. We found limited empirical support for the assumption that this diminished association between neighbourhood disadvantage and fear can be explained by the stronger neighbourhood attachment of older people. The limitations of the analysis and potential future directions of research are discussed.
Neighborhood Guardianship and Property Crime Victimization
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-06-2017
Abstract: In this study, we assess the extent to which the availability of guardians, guardianship expectations, and guardianship actions explain the variation of neighborhood property crime rates and self-reported property crime victimization. Furthermore, we examine whether or not the strength of these relationships is moderated by the neighborhood composition. We use data from the Australian Community Capacity Study (ACCS), a survey of 4,000 respondents from 148 neighborhoods across Brisbane, Australia, and employ regression and multi-level regression techniques. We find that particular aspects of guardianship do protect against crime however, the relationship between guardianship and crime is influenced by neighborhood ersity, disadvantage, and residential instability.
“Seeing” Hate Crime in the Community: Do Resident Perceptions of Hate Crime Align With Self-Reported Victimization?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 21-01-2017
Abstract: Hate crimes undermine tolerance and social inclusion by conveying an “outsider” status of the victim and other group members to the broader community. Yet, limited research considers whether non-victims recognize hate crime incidents when they occur. Using census and survey data for 4,000 residents living in 145 communities, we ask whether local residents “see” hate crime when it happens in their neighborhood and whether the neighborhood context influences the association between residents’ perceptions of hate crime and self-reported hate victimization. We find that residents’ perceptions are positively related to victim self-reports however, this relationship weakens in ethnically erse and disadvantaged areas. This suggests that residents’ perceptions of hate crime may be more dependent upon the community context than non-hate crimes.
Perceived Variability as a Video-Media Prejudice Reduction Intervention
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 04-03-2022
The effect of ethnic diversity on collective efficacy in Australia
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 10-07-2016
Abstract: Ethnic ersity is portrayed in the literature as a threat to a community’s ability to regulate the behaviour of its members. While there is no shortage of studies examining the effects of ethnic ersity on the social processes important for crime control, findings are inconclusive across national contexts. Further, definitional issues associated with ‘ethnicity’ make cross-cultural comparisons difficult. Using Australian Community Capacity Study survey data from 4091 respondents in 147 Brisbane suburbs, combined with census and police incident data, multivariate regression techniques are utilised to determine the extent to which ethnic ersity influences collective efficacy once we control for other known correlates and which aspect of ersity ‘matters most’ to levels of collective efficacy. Specifically, we consider the relationship between the ersity or concentration of language, religion and country of birth and collective efficacy. Results indicate that the presence of language ersity and indigeneity in the community are most detrimental to collective efficacy.
Ethnic Diversity, Social Identity, and Social Withdrawal: Investigating Putnam’s Constrict Thesis
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 25-05-2021
Neighbourhood social conduits and resident social cohesion
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-09-2018
Abstract: Given the importance of the neighbourhood context for residents’ social cohesion, the current study examines the association between types of social and non-social places on three indicators of social cohesion: neighbour networks, social cohesion and neighbourhood attachment. We spatially integrate data from the census, topographic databases and a 2012 survey of 4132 residents from 148 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, Australia, and employ multilevel models to assess whether the variation in resident reports of social cohesion is attributable to land uses that function as neighbourhood social conduits. We also consider the degree to which neighbourhood fragmentation affects our indicators of social cohesion. Our findings reveal that even after controlling for the socio-demographic context of the neighbourhood and a range of in idual and household control variables, residents’ reports of social cohesion are significantly associated with the types of social conduits, the ersity of land use and the degree of neighbourhood fragmentation.
The neighbourhood context of crime against international students
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-11-2017
Abstract: Stark differences exist between the support and accommodation provision for tertiary students across the UK, the US and Australia. Within this framework, this study provides insights into the neighbourhood contexts where offences against Indian international students took place in the western suburbs of Melbourne. Shaped by ideas associated with social disorganisation and resource threat theories, we suggest that the concentration of large numbers of international students without adequate supports in areas characterised by high levels of disadvantage, ethnic ersity and high levels of crime contributed to the victimisation of international students. The study aims to help better understand how the neighbourhood context influences hate crime more broadly and specifically examines the neighbourhood context of international student victimisation. The study is designed to provide a nuanced understanding of the circumstances leading to attacks against international students and contributes to the international student safety and hate crime victimisation literature.
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Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-04-2015
Collective Efficacy in Australian and German Neighborhoods: Testing Cross-Cultural Measurement Equivalence and Structural Correlates in a Multi-level SEM Framework
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 06-02-2019
Outlaw motorcycle gangs and neighbourhood crime
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 16-05-2021
Examining the social porosity of environmental features on neighborhood sociability and attachment
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Date: 10-01-2014
Responding to Neighborhood Problems: Is the Division of Community Labor Gendered?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 31-12-2018
Abstract: Social disorganization theory positions informal social control as central to neighborhood crime reduction. Although neighborhood ties, fear of crime, and perceived disorder influence the exercise of informal social control, there are significant sex differences for these drivers that might differentially influence men and women’s informal social control actions. Furthermore, these differences may be exaggerated under conditions that activate gendered isions of labor. We use survey data from 4,000 residents in 148 neighborhoods and employ multilevel logistic regression to examine the relationship between sex and informal social control actions. We find that men are more likely to take action than women however, our three-way interactions reveal family arrangements moderate the relationship between ties, fear of crime, disorder, and these actions.
New Suburbs in the Making? Locating Master Planned Estates in a Comparative Analysis of Suburbs in South-East Queensland
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2013
Greenspace and Crime
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2016
Abstract: There is a growing interest in the relationship between greenspace and crime, yet how particular greenspace types encourage or inhibit the timing and types of greenspace crime remains largely unexplored. Drawing upon recent advances in environmental criminology, we introduce an integrated suite of methods to examine the spatial, temporal, and neighborhood dynamics of greenspace crime. We collate administrative, census, and crime incident data and employ cluster analysis, circular statistics, and negative binomial regression to examine violent, public nuisance, property, and drug crimes within 4,265 greenspaces across Brisbane, Australia. We find that greenspace amenities, neighborhood social composition, and the presence of proximate crime generators influence the frequency and timing of greenspace crime. Our analyses reveal that particular types of greenspaces are more crime prone than others. We argue that this is largely due to the presence of amenities within greenspaces allied with the sociodemographic context of surrounding neighborhoods. We conclude that understanding how these factors influence the behaviors of potential offenders, victims, and guardians is necessary to better understand the spatial distribution of greenspace crime and provide an evidence base for crime prevention initiatives.
Violence and Aggression in Socially Disorganized Neighborhoods
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2017
DOI: 10.1002/9781119057574.WHBVA044
Abstract: Social disorganization theory suggests that violence and aggression cluster in neighborhoods characterized by poverty, residential instability, and racial or ethnic ersity. These neighborhood factors create opportunities for violence by disrupting neighborhood networks necessary for the informal regulation of crime. In this chapter, we chart the development of social disorganization theory from early explanations of the spatial concentration of delinquency in 20th‐century Chicago to the development of the systemic model of community regulation and collective efficacy theory. We also consider the influence of social disorganization theory on community crime prevention initiatives. We conclude by discussing the changing nature of communities and the associated challenges for promoting community engagement and the development of informal social control at the local level.
Privatisation, Security and Community: How Master Planned Estates are Changing Suburban Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 12-2010
Change and stability in ethnic diversity across urban communities: Explicating the influence of social cohesion on perceptions of disorder
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 28-06-2013
Abstract: A growing body of research shows that perceived community disorder is not solely driven by crime, but is influenced by the community’s social cohesion and ethnic composition. Drawing on two waves of survey data from 2509 and 2651 in iduals in Wave 1 and Wave 2 respectively, living in 71 communities in Brisbane Australia, we examine changes in ethnic composition over two time periods and how these changes influence perceived neighbourhood disorder. We also test whether or not social cohesion mediates these associations. Our findings indicate that high proportions of Indigenous residents and high levels of reported crime averaged across time are associated with greater perceived disorder. Whereas increases in household income over time are associated with lower perceived disorder. We also find that social cohesion is strongly associated with perceived disorder over time, but does not mediate the relationship between the racial and ethnic composition of the community and disorder. Yet when a community’s social cohesion is considered, the effect of increasing household income becomes non-significant.
Probabilistic methods of analysis for the time series Moran scatterplot quadrant signature
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-09-2015
DOI: 10.1002/ENV.2302
The Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Informal Social Control and Crime
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 18-04-2018
DOI: 10.1093/SF/SOY026
Seeing Minorities And Perceptions Of Disorder: Explicating The Mediating And Moderating Mechanisms Of Social Cohesion
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-05-2013
Regional migration and the local multicultural imaginary: the uneasy governance of cultural difference in regional Australia
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 15-04-2022
Navigating a successful doctoral research experience
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Date: 25-07-2014
Neighbourhood places, collective efficacy and crime: A longitudinal perspective
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-05-2022
DOI: 10.1177/00420980211008820
Abstract: Neighbourhood places like shops, cafes and parks support a variety of social interactions ranging from the ephemeral to the intimate. Repeated interactions at neighbourhood places over time lay the foundation for the development of social cohesion and collective efficacy. In this study, we examine the proposition that changes in the presence or arrangement of neighbourhood places can destabilise social cohesion and collective efficacy, which has implications for crime. Using spatially integrated crime, social survey and parcel-level land-use classification data, we estimate mixed effects panel models predicting changes in theft and nuisance crimes across 147 Australian neighbourhoods. The findings are consistent with neighbourhood social control and crime opportunity theories. Neighbourhood development – indicated by fewer vacant properties and fewer industrial and agricultural sites – is associated with higher collective efficacy and less crime over time. Conversely, introducing more restaurants, transit stations and cinemas is associated with higher theft and nuisance over time regardless of neighbourhood collective efficacy. We argue that the addition of socially conducive places can leave neighbourhoods vulnerable to crime until new patterns of sociability emerge and collective efficacy develops.
Problems, perceptions and actions: An interdependent process for generating informal social control
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
DOI: 10.1016/J.SSRESEARCH.2018.03.015
Abstract: Using two waves of survey data for residents in neighborhoods in Brisbane, this study explores the interdependent relationship between residents' perceptions of neighboring, cohesion, collective efficacy, neighborhood disorder, and the actions they take to address these problems. Our longitudinal results show that residents' perceived severity of a problem helps explain engaging in activity to address the problem. People loitering appeared to be the most galvanizing problem for residents, but had particularly deleterious effects on perceptions of cohesion and collective efficacy. We also find that residents who perceive more neighboring in their local area engage in more public and parochial social control activity and residents who live in collectively efficacious neighborhoods are more likely to engage in parochial social control action. Furthermore, residents who themselves perceive more collective efficacy in the neighborhood engage in more parochial or public social control during the subsequent time period. Importantly, we find strong evidence that residents update their sense of collective efficacy. Perceiving more problems in the neighborhood, and perceiving that these problems are increasing, reduced perceptions of neighboring and collective efficacy over time.
Ethnic Hate Crime in Australia: Diversity and Change in the Neighbourhood Context
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 07-2015
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZV067
Collective Efficacy as a Task Specific Process: Examining the Relationship Between Social Ties, Neighborhood Cohesion and the Capacity to Respond to Violence, Delinquency and Civic Problems
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-06-2013
DOI: 10.1007/S10464-013-9582-6
Abstract: In the neighborhood effects literature, collective efficacy is viewed as the key explanatory process associated with the spatial distribution of a range of social problems. While many studies usefully focus on the consequences of collective efficacy, in this paper we examine the task specificity of collective efficacy and consider the in idual and neighborhood factors that influence residents' perceptions of neighborhood collective efficacy for specific tasks. Utilizing survey and administrative data from 4,093 residents nested in 148 communities in Australia, we distinguish collective efficacy for particular threats to social order and assess the relative importance of social cohesion and neighborhood social ties to the development of collective efficacy for violence, delinquency and civic olitical issues. Our results indicate that a model separating collective efficacy for specific problems from social ties and the more generalized notions of social cohesion is necessary when understanding the regulation potential of neighborhoods.
Greenspace and Place Attachment: Do Greener Suburbs Lead to Greater Residential Place Attachment?
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 19-05-2014
The temporality of place: Constructing a temporal typology of crime in commercial precincts
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 03-05-2019
Abstract: Well established in criminological scholarship is the way that crime is neither spatially nor temporally uniformly distributed. Rather crime is distributed in a manner that means it is both particular places and particular times that are subject to the majority of crime events. Furthermore, we know that crime varies over the course of a day and week, with periods of time the same place can function as a crime generator, a crime attractor or as a crime detractor. What is less evident is the way in which some places ‘flip’ from a largely crime free space to one that provides the necessary preconditions for crime to occur. In this paper we focus on commercial precincts as the context, given their functional importance in our daily lives providing places of employment, recreation and a locus for social encounters. By spatially integrating crime incident data and census information and employing circular, clustering and spline regression techniques we examine the intensity, tempo and timing of crime in these locales and generate a temporal typology for 2286 commercial precincts across Queensland, Australia.
Surviving the politics of illegality
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 14-07-2015
Gender and national identity: Lessons from the Australian case
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 09-2006
Surrounded by violence: how do individual perceptions and community context shape views about violence?
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 08-08-2018
Abstract: In this paper we examine the community- and in idual-level characteristics associated with in iduals’ perceptions of violence. We use data collected in the Australian Community Capacity Study Wave 3 survey of over 4000 in iduals living in 148 local residential communities in Brisbane and employ multilevel models to examine the association between community context, in idual perceptions of police effectiveness and the belief that people in one’s community support violence to resolve conflict. We find communities with histories of violent crime and more negative views about police effectiveness tend to be communities where residents perceive their neighbours will support the use of violence to resolve conflict.
The spatial concentration of bias: An examination of the community factors that influence residents’ perceptions of bias crime
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-04-2014
Abstract: Emerging scholarship indicates that bias crimes are concentrated in particular types of places. Currently, only a small number of studies consider the ecological factors that influence official reports of bias crime. Results from these studies indicate that the community processes and structures associated with the occurrence of non-bias crime may operate differently for bias crime. We use administrative and survey data from approximately 4000 residents living across 148 communities in Brisbane, Queensland to examine the ecological drivers of bias crime. Using multi-level logistic regression, we examine the community and household factors associated with residents’ perceptions of bias crime. Here, we focus not only on the structural demographics of the community, but also on the degree to which community cohesion influences whether or not residents perceive bias crime as a problem in their community. We find that poverty and ethnic ersity are positively associated with residents’ perceptions of bias crime. Further, residents living in communities with higher levels of community cohesion are less likely to perceive bias crime as a problem in their community. The level of community cohesion fully mediates the impact of ethnic ersity and partially mediates the effect of poverty on residents’ perceptions of bias crime.
The resilience of neighborhood social processes: A case study of the 2011 Brisbane flood
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2017
DOI: 10.1016/J.SSRESEARCH.2016.07.006
Abstract: Social disorganization theories position neighborhood social capital and collective efficacy as key social processes that should facilitate community resilience in the aftermath of disaster. Yet limited evidence demonstrates that these social processes are themselves resilient with some studies showing that disaster can fracture even once cohesive neighborhoods. In this paper we assess the stability of neighborhood level collective efficacy and social capital before and after a disaster. We use multilevel structural equation modeling and draw on census and longitudinal survey data collected from over 4000 residents living in 148 neighborhoods in Brisbane, Australia before and after a significant flood event. We examine what happens to social capital and collective efficacy in flooded and non-flooded neighborhoods and assess whether demographic shifts are associated with change and/or stability in these processes. We find strong evidence that these processes operate similarly across flooded and not flooded communities. Our findings also reveal significant stability for our measures of social capital across time, while collective efficacy increases post flood across all neighborhoods, but more so in flooded neighborhoods. Neighborhood demographics have limited effect on patterns of stability or change in these social processes. We discuss the theoretical and practical implications of these findings for our understanding of neighborhood resilience in the wake of disaster.
Violence in Urban Neighborhoods: A Longitudinal Study of Collective Efficacy and Violent Crime
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 28-06-2016
Managing a marginalised identity in pro-anorexia and fat acceptance cybercommunities
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 06-06-2015
Abstract: This study examines how members of pro-anorexia (PA) and fat acceptance (FA) cybercommunities manage their ascribed ‘offline’ socially marginalised identity in an ‘online’ environment. While much of the sociological literature continues to focus on the corporeal or face-to-face practices of socially marginalised groups, we use online non-participant observation to explore how members of these sites use the internet to manage their marginalised identities. We find that cybercommunities provide a safe place for identity management where members come together to understand, negotiate and, at times, reject the marginalised identity ascribed to them in their offline environment. From the accounts of the PA and FA members we studied, we find that online and offline identities are mutually reinforcing and collectively inform and shape identity. However, the online environment provides an anonymised space for identity work, emotional support and an acceptance of their body, whatever their shape or size.
Community social capital and individual functioning in the post-disaster context
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-11-2018
DOI: 10.1111/DISA.12317
Abstract: Disasters can have severe and long-lasting consequences for in iduals and communities. While scholarly evidence indicates that access to social support can ameliorate their negative impacts, less understood is whether or not neighbourhood social capital can facilitate recovery. This study uses two waves of survey data-collected before and after a significant flood in Brisbane, Australia, in 2011-to examine the relationship between the severity of the event at the in idual and neighbourhood level, access to neighbourhood social capital and in idual-level social support, and functioning in the post-disaster environment. In line with previous research, the results indicate that the severity of the flood is the most salient predictor of post-disaster functioning. No evidence was unearthed to show that neighbourhood social capital amassed before the flood leads to better functioning subsequently, but the findings do suggest that in idual-level social support can moderate the effect of flood severity on functioning.
Generating Action and Responding to Local Issues: Collective Efficacy in Context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 11-2010
Abstract: Recent research suggests that communities can be collectively efficacious without dense networks and kith and kinship relations. Yet few studies examine how collective efficacy is generated and sustained in the absence of close social ties. Using in-depth interviews with local residents and key stakeholders in two collectively efficacious suburbs in Brisbane, Australia, this study explores the role of social ties and networks in shaping residents' sense of active engagement and perceptions of community capacity. Results suggest that strong social bonds among residents are not necessary for the development of social cohesion and informal social control. Instead, collective representations or symbols of ‘community’ provide residents with a sense of social cohesion, trust and a perceived willingness of others to respond to problems of crime and disorder. Yet there is limited evidence that these collectively efficacious communities comprise actively engaged residents. In both communities, participants report a strong reliance on key institutions and organisations to manage and respond to a variety of problems, from neighbourhood nuisances to crime and disorder. These findings suggest a more a nuanced understanding of collective efficacy theory is needed.
What reduces prejudice in the real world? A meta‐analysis of prejudice reduction field experiments
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-11-2021
DOI: 10.1111/BJSO.12509
Abstract: Despite advances to promote acceptance and equity in many countries, prejudice remains a significant social problem. Promoting intergroup harmony requires knowledge about what works to reduce prejudice in community settings. This meta‐analysis of field experiments reveals the most effective intervention types and conditions for reducing negative attitudes towards minority groups in real‐world settings. Across 69 intervention arms and 24,378 participants, results reveal that prejudice reduction interventions are effective at improving attitudes towards minority groups in real‐world settings ( d = 0.51, 95% CI [0.33 0.68]). The prediction interval was −0.90 to 1.92. In this case, the prediction interval was particularly wide because of the high degree of heterogeneity detected in effect size. Subgroup analyses indicate that less commonly explored approaches, such as perceived variability, may have larger effect sizes than contact‐based interventions. Still, more research is needed to confirm the effects of these less‐researched approaches. Additionally, results show that interventions are more effective for school and college cohorts than for adults, and that the effects of prejudice reduction interventions endure over time.
Living near violence: How proximity to violence shapes perceptions of police effectiveness and confidence in police
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2017
Crime Talk in the Suburbs: Symbolic Representations of Status and Security on a Master Planned Estate
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-2012
Neighborhood Structure, Social Capital, and Community Resilience: Longitudinal Evidence from the 2011 Brisbane Flood Disaster
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-02-2015
DOI: 10.1111/SSQU.12144
Disasters and crime: The effect of flooding on property crime in brisbane neighborhoods
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 10-03-2017
Police Legitimacy in Community Context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 27-04-2015
Neighbourhood land use features, collective efficacy and local civic actions
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-07-2018
Abstract: This paper explores the association between neighbourhood land use features and informal social control. More specifically, we examine the extent to which such features in combination with the socio-demographic context of the neighbourhood facilitate or impede collective efficacy and local civic actions. We achieve this through spatially integrating data from the census, topographic databases and a 2012 survey of 4132 residents from 148 neighbourhoods in Brisbane, Australia. The study creates a new classification of a neighbourhood’s physical environment by creating novel categories of land use features that depict social conduits, social holes and social wedges. Social conduits are features of the neighbourhood that facilitate interaction between in iduals, social holes are land uses that create situations where there is no occupancy, and social wedges are features that carve up neighbourhoods. We find some evidence to suggest that residents’ reports of collective efficacy are higher in neighbourhoods with a greater density of social conduits. Density of social conduits is also positively associated with local civic action. However, in neighbourhoods with more greenspace, residents are less likely to engage in local civic actions.
They Are All ‘Doing Gender’ but are They are All Passing? a Case Study of the Appropriation of a Sociological Concept
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 05-2007
DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-954X.2007.00707.X
Abstract: The concept of ‘doing gender’ was placed on the sociological agenda by West and Zimmerman. In their seminal paper published in 1987, they provided a systematic theory of gender as a routine and ongoing process and outlined a distinctly ethnomethodological approach to investigating how gender is enacted, understood and rendered accountable. West and Zimmerman's notion of ‘doing gender’ has subsequently become a central concept in many fields of sociological research, however, upon closer examination although many authors claim to be using the concept – in effect to be doing ‘doing gender’ – the concept's intellectual roots in ethnomethodology are not always recognised or reflected: in short not all are passing. The purpose of our study is to explore the career trajectory of this concept and to systematically assess the manner in which ‘doing’ has been employed. From a review of 226 journal articles, books, dissertations and association papers, we provide an overview of the uses of this construct and examine the ways in which ‘doing gender’ has been assimilated into current theoretical and methodological practice.
Neighborhood social ties and shared expectations for informal social control: do they influence informal social control actions?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 02-2017
Ethnic diversity and its impact on community social cohesion and neighborly exchange
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2014
DOI: 10.1111/JUAF.12015
Community variations in violence: The role of social ties and collective efficacy in comparative context
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-12-2010
Abstract: This article explores the relative roles of social ties and collective efficacy in explaining community variations in violent victimization in Australia. Using data from a survey of 2,859 residents across 82 communities in the city of Brisbane, coupled with official reported crime data provided by the Queensland Police Service and Australian Bureau of Statistics census data for 2001, the authors employ multilevel statistical models to depict the relative importance of social ties and collective efficacy in predicting between-neighborhood violent victimization in an Australian context. The models include measures of social relationships and community-based crime prevention programs, and the authors compare and contrast their findings with studies of collective efficacy in Chicago and Stockholm, finding similar results. These findings suggest that despite structural and cultural differences between the United States and Australia in particular, collective efficacy is a significant mechanism in explaining the spatial distribution of self-reported violent victimization in the Australian context. This research underscores the importance of cross-cultural theory testing and the need to further develop the measurement of ecological constructs such as social ties and organizational behavior.
The vicarious effects of hate: inter-ethnic hate crime in the neighborhood and its consequences for exclusion and anticipated rejection
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 27-05-2021
Policing community problems: Exploring the role of formal social control in shaping collective efficacy
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 04-2013
Abstract: Research finds police-led crime control interventions focusing on places and involving partnerships tend to yield positive crime control outcomes. Some scholars argue that these positive outcomes are achieved when police use place-based, partnership-oriented interventions to facilitate and encourage collective efficacy (CE), the corollary being that these CE-enhancing efforts lead to less crime. Nevertheless, differentiating the police activities that impact CE across different types of communities is not well understood. This paper examines the role of police in shaping CE in two contrasting communities. Using in-depth interviews with residents and key informants we find that police are most likely to enhance CE when they foster a sense of effectiveness, use inclusive and partnership-oriented strategies and when they implement strategies in a manner that encourages perceptions of police legitimacy. Moreover, if police can maintain or cultivate a sense of empowerment among community residents, they are more likely to foster CE. Yet the role of police in enhancing CE is different in different community types. We discuss the implications of these findings for policy and practice.
Social Disorganization Theory: Its History and Relevance to Crime Prevention
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 12-2016
From Hate to Prejudice: Does the New Terminology of Prejudice Motivated Crime Change Perceptions and Reporting Actions?
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-07-2015
DOI: 10.1093/BJC/AZV041
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