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The Effect of Social Cohesion on Levels of Recorded Crime in Disadvantaged Areas
- Source :
- Urban Studies. 34:1275-1295
- Publication Year :
- 1997
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 1997.
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Abstract
- This paper investigates the hypothesis that the level of crime in disadvantaged areas will be influenced by their levels of social cohesion. This issue is examined using two methods for delineating areas of disadvantage (geodemographic classifications and the British government's official deprivation measure, the Index of Local Conditions) and two independent components of social cohesion, one defines the level of 'social control' in an area and the other identifies 'ethnic heterogeneity'. The results suggest that levels of crime are significantly lower than expected in disadvantaged areas with high levels of social cohesion and vice versa. A complementary analysis of Homewatch schemes revealed that such schemes lead to reduced levels of burglary in affluent areas, but appear to have the opposite effect to that desired in more disadvantaged areas.
- Subjects :
- Government
Index (economics)
050901 criminology
05 social sciences
Ethnic group
Environmental Science (miscellaneous)
Disadvantaged
Urban Studies
Cohesion (linguistics)
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Geodemographic segmentation
Demographic economics
Sociology
0509 other social sciences
Social science
Social control
Disadvantage
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1360063X and 00420980
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Urban Studies
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........fa0dc045ba06d88edfd396af98fb12e9