Characteristics of high and low crime neighborhoods in Atlanta, 1980
By: principal investigator, Stephanie Greenberg
Series: ICPSR -- 7951; ICPSR (Series) -- 7951
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Crime; Crime prevention
Description: This study examines the question of how some urban neighborhoods maintain a low crime rate despite their proximity and similarity to relatively high crime areas. The purpose of the study is to investigate differences in various dimensions of the concept of territoriality (spatial identity, local ties, social cohesion, informal social control) and physical characteristics (land use, housing, street type, boundary characteristics) in three pairs of neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia. The study neighborhoods were selected by locating pairs of adjacent neighborhoods with distinctly different crime levels. The criteria for selection, other than the difference in crime rates and physical adjacency, were comparable racial composition and comparable economic status. This data collection is divided into two files. The Atlanta PLAN file contains information on every parcel of land within the six neighborhoods in the study. The variables include ownership, type of land use, physical characteristics, characteristics of structures, and assessed value of each parcel of land within the six neighborhoods. This file was used in the data analysis to measure a number of physical characteristics of parcels and blocks in the study neighborhoods, and as the sampling frame for the household survey.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: August-October, 1980.

United States.

File 1: 9,121 cases, 81 variables; File 2: 523 cases, 713 variables.