Community, crime control, and collective efficacy : neighborhoods and crime in Miami / Craig D. Uchida, Marc L. Swatt, Shellie E. Solomon, Sean P. Varano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Uchida, Craig D., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime prevention--Florida--Miami.

Crime prevention.

Neighborhoods--Florida--Miami.

Neighborhoods.

Community organization--Florida--Miami.

Community organization.

Crime--Sociological aspects.

Crime.

Sociology, Urban--Florida--Miami.

Sociology, Urban.

Florida--Miami.

Physical Description:

viii, 159 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

Summary:

Collective efficacy is a neighborhood-level concept in which community members create a sense of agency and assume ownership for the state of their local community. This concept is one of several forms of formal and informal social control that predict the overall functioning of a community. In this book, the authors examine collective efficacy and crime in eight Miami-Dade County, Florida neighborhoods, based on data they collected from across the country and in the Miami-Dade neighborhoods themselves. They discuss findings relevant to the theory of collective efficacy itself, ramifications for its use within communities, and make recommendations for future research and for translating these results into actionable, crime prevention activities. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Community, Crime Control, and Collective Efficacy 1

2 Methodology 15

3 Psychometric Properties of the New Collective Efficacy Scale 25

4 The Relationships between Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Social Cohesion and Outcome Variables 57

5 Assessing Heterogeneity in Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Social Cohesion across Neighborhoods 69

6 Exploring the Predictors of Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Perceptions of Social Cohesion 89

7 Within-Neighborhood Variation in Collective Efficacy and Social Cohesion 101

8 Conclusion and Discussion for Future Research 119

9 Conclusion and Discussion for Future Policy 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781498517461

1498517463

9781498517485

149851748X

OCLC:

920469703