Pockets of Crime
Subtitle: Broken Windows, Collective Efficacy, and the Criminal Point of View
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press
Published: November 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780226774985
Subjects: Causes & prevention of crime; Urban communities; Criminology; Sociology - Urban; Social Science / Sociology / Urban; Social Science; Sociology; Crime; Criminal behavior
Description: Drawing on Chicago Police Department statistics and interviews with both law-abiding citizens and criminals in one of the city's highest-crime areas, this work demonstrates that drug dealers and robbers are primarily attracted to locations with businesses like liquor stores, fast food restaurants, and check-cashing outlets.