Craig D. Uchida, Marc L. Swatt, Shellie E. Solomon

Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy

Neighborhoods and Crime in Miami

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a study of collective efficacy in eight neighborhoods in Miami-Dade County, Florida. Using residential surveys, observations, and new methods of statistical and mapping analysis (kriging), the book provides a number of important findings relevant to the theory itself, ramifications for its use within communities, and implications for current and future research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9781498517461
• ISBN-10: 1498517463
• Artikelnr.: 43493354

Autorenporträt

Craig D. Uchida is the president and founder of Justice & Security Strategies, Inc.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy
Chapter 2: Methodology
Chapter 3: Psychometric Properties of the New Collective Efficacy Scale
Chapter 4: The Relationships between Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and
Social Cohesion and Outcome Variables
Chapter 5: Assessing Heterogeneity in Perceptions of Collective Efficacy
and Social Cohesion across Neighborhoods
Chapter 6: Exploring the Predictors of Perceptions of Collective Efficacy
and Perceptions of Social Cohesion
Chapter 7: Within Neighborhood Variation in Collective Efficacy and Social
Cohesion
Chapter 8: Conclusions and Discussion for Future Research
Chapter 9: Conclusions and Discussion for Future Policy