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Author St. Jean, Peter K. B.

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

Imprint Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2007.

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Description xviii, 278 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Crime.
Criminology.
Criminal behavior.
Neighborhoods -- Social aspects.
Neighborhoods -- Psychological aspects.
Applied human geography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780226774985 (cloth : alk. paper)
0226774988 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226774992 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0226774996 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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