Pockets of crime : broken windows, collective efficacy, and the criminal point of view /
St. Jean, Peter K. B.
Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press,
c2007.
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.
Crime.
Criminology.
Criminal behavior.
Neighborhood
Neighborhood
Applied human geography.