Ralph Taylor

Breaking Away from Broken Windows

Baltimore Neighborhoods and the Nationwide Fight Against Crime, Grime, Fear, and Decline

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Produktbeschreibung

"In Breaking Away from Broken Windows Ralph Taylor uses data on recent Baltimore crime-reduction efforts to attack the 'broken windows' thesis--that is, the currently fashionable notion that by reducin"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 406
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780813397580
• ISBN-10: 0813397588
• Artikelnr.: 22434200

Autorenporträt

Ralph Taylor

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Acronyms Part 1: Background on the Place, the Theory, and Policies
1. Introduction
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Oakland, California
Focus
Incivilities, Disorder, Social Disorganization, Collective Efficacy, and Social Capital
Broader Theoretical and Empirical Context of Current Approaches
Evidence
The Argument and the Chapters Ahead
The "Bottom Line,"
Notes
References
2. The Baltimore Context, and Its Context
With Charles David Linne
The War Has Been Won?
Purpose
Changes in People, Housing, and Jobs
Changes in Crime: The City as a Whole
Baltimore Neighborhood Crime Rates
Shifting Incivilities, 1981-1994
Summary Comments on Changes
The Questions of Fear and Neighborhood Problems
In the News
Notes
References
3. The Incivilities Thesis: Theory, Measurement, and Policy
Organization
Variations on a Theme
Empirical Support for Hypotheses
A Theoretical Aside on Demographic and Structural Issues
From Theory to Research: Incivilities Indicators
Implications for Policy, Practice, and Theory
Notes
References Part 2: Quantitative Evidence on Origins and Impacts
4. Origins of Incivilities
A Story About One Broken Window
Focus and Organization
Perspectives on the Origins of Incivilities
An Unexciting, but Necessary, Methodological Aside on Change
Another Necessary, but Unexciting, Aside on Multilevel Models
Overview of Indicators, Outcomes, and Controls
Incivilities Observed
Incivilities As Perceived by Residents
Discussion
Notes
References
5. Impacts of Incivilities on Later Crime and Decline
A Systemic Perspective
Focus
Data and Analysis,
Changes on Decline Indicators in the 1980s
Crime Rate Changes
Predicting Decline
Discussion
Notes
References
6. Longitudinal Impacts of Incivilities on Reactions to Crime and Local Commitment
Reactions to Crime
Focus
Data and Analysis
Impacts of Specific Predictors
Closing Thoughts,
Support for Longitudinal Impacts of Incivilities
Notes
References Part 3: Qualitative Evidence from Community Leaders
7. The Community Perspective: Views About Incivilities and Responses to Incivilities in the Context of Collective Crime Prevention Initiatives
Organization of the Chapter and Questions Addressed
What Influences the Type of Collective Strategies Adopted? Podolefsky's Model
Data Sources
Responses to Drug Sales and Use and Related Crime Problems
Neighborhood Fabric and Responses to Crime and Drug Sales and Use
Closing Comments
Appendix: Sample Selection Procedures and Contact Attempts
Notes
References
8. Place Power and Implications for Coproduced Safety: Changes and Stability in Neighborhood Names, Boundaries, and Organizations
Neighborhood Mapping and Current Data Sources
Organization
Naming and Bounding
Service Delivery Issues and Community Policing
Stability and Changes
Implications: Can Police-Community Partnerships Organize Around Neighborhood Units?
Summary
Notes
References
9. Closing Thoughts
Context and Ironies
Does the Theory Get Support?
The Context Outside the Theory,
Notes
References
Index