Article
Community Organizing, Environmental Change, and Neighborhood Crime
Crime and Delinquency
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1-1997
Abstract
This article addresses the effects of an urban neighborhood's response to a significant increase in crime, drugs, and other incivilities in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Residents organized a major effort to stabilize the neighborhood that included implementation of a defensible space plan. Comparisons of crime data and of residents' perceptions of crime between the pre- and postimplementation periods show significant improvements. The data provide greater support for the opportunity model of community crime prevention than for the community model. Cautions are provided regarding transplanting the same plan elsewhere.
Inclusive pages
493-511
ISBN/ISSN
0011-1287
Copyright
Copyright © 1997, Sage Publications
Publisher
Sage Publications
Peer Reviewed
Yes
Disciplines
Citation Information
Patrick G. Donnelly and Charles E. Kimble. "Community Organizing, Environmental Change, and Neighborhood Crime" Crime and Delinquency Vol. 43 Iss. 4 (1997) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/patrick-donnelly/1/
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