Breaking away from broken windows : Baltimore neighborhoods and the nationwide fight against crime, grime, fear, and decline / Ralph B. Taylor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taylor, Ralph B.

Series:

Crime & society (Boulder, Colo.)

Crime & society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention--United States.

Crime prevention.

Quality of life.

Urban policy.

Neighborhoods.

United States.

Crime prevention--Maryland--Baltimore.

Neighborhoods--United States.

Neighborhoods--Maryland--Baltimore.

Urban policy--United States.

Urban policy--Maryland--Baltimore.

Quality of life--United States.

Quality of life--Maryland--Baltimore.

Maryland--Baltimore.

Physical Description:

xviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 2001.

Contents:

Part 1 Background on the Place, the Theory, and Policies

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 3

Oakland, California 5

Focus 6

Incivilities, Disorder, Social Disorganization, Collective Efficacy, and Social Capital 7

Broader Theoretical and Empirical Context of Current Approaches 8

Evidence 14

The Argument and the Chapters Ahead 17

The "Bottom Line," 21

2 The Baltimore Context, and Its Context with Charles David Linne 27

The War Has Been Won? 27

Purpose 29

Changes in People, Housing, and Jobs 30

Changes in Crime: The City as a Whole 34

Baltimore Neighborhood Crime Rates 39

Shifting Incivilities, 1981-1994 45

The Questions of Fear and Neighborhood Problems 50

In the News 58

3 The Incivilities Thesis: Theory, Measurement, and Policy 93

Organization 95

Variations on a Theme 95

Empirical Support for Hypotheses 104

A Theoretical Aside on Demographic and Structural Issues 109

From Theory to Research: Incivilities Indicators 110

Implications for Policy, Practice, and Theory 120

Part 2 Quantitative Evidence on Origins and Impacts

4 Origins of Incivilities 135

A Story About One Broken Window 135

Focus and Organization 136

Perspectives on the Origins of Incivilities 136

An Unexciting, but Necessary Methodological Aside on Change 142

Another Necessary, but Unexciting, Aside on Multilevel Models 146

Overview of Indicators, Outcomes, and Controls 147

Incivilities Observed 149

Incivilities As Perceived by Residents 164

5 Impacts of Incivilities on Later Crime and Decline 179

A Systemic Perspective 180

Focus 181

Data and Analysis 182

Changes on Decline Indicators in the 1980s 184

Crime Rate Changes 185

Predicting Decline 190

6 Longitudinal Impacts of Incivilities on Reactions to Crime and Local Commitment 203

Reactions to Crime 204

Focus 210

Data and Analysis 211

Impacts of Specific Predictors 219

Closing Thoughts 228

Support for Longitudinal Impacts of Incivilities 231

Part 3 Qualitative Evidence from Community Leaders

7 The Community Perspective: Views About Incivilities and Responses to Incivilities in the Context of Collective Crime Prevention Initiatives 243

Organization of the Chapter and Questions Addressed 249

What Influences the Type of Collective Strategies Adopted? Podolefsky's Model 250

Data Sources 258

Responses to Drug Sales and Use and Related Crime Problems 260

Neighborhood Fabric and Responses to Crime and Drug Sales and Use 290

Appendix Sample Selection Procedures and Contact Attempts 295

8 Place Power and Implications for Coproduced Safety: Changes and Stability in Neighborhood Names, Boundaries, and Organizations 203

Neighborhood Mapping and Current Data Sources 305

Organization 307

Naming and Bounding 308

Service Delivery Issues and Community Policing 316

Stability and Changes 318

Implications: Can Police-Community Partnerships Organize Around Neighborhood Units? 346

Context and Ironies 365

Does the Theory Get Support? 366

The Context Outside the Theory 375.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0813397588

0813397804

OCLC:

44811635