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Pockets of crime [electronic resource] : broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view / Peter K.B. St. Jean.

By: St. Jean, Peter K. B.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007Description: xviii, 278 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Crime | Criminology | Criminal behavior | Neighborhoods -- Social aspects | Neighborhoods -- Psychological aspects | Applied human geographyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.2 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.