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Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context

Year: 1990

Type: article

Abstract: We propose aframework for understanding the relationship of participation in block associations to a wide range of block-level variables (demograph-ics, the built environment, crime, and the transient social and physical environmenO. Data were obtained from 48 New York City blocks using (a) a telephone survey of residents (n = 1,081), (b) the Block Environmental Inventory (BEI), (c) police records of reported crime, and (d) a survey of block association members (n = 469). The BEI, which measures the built 1Portions of this paper are based on the first author's unpublished dissertation i Community

Source: American Journal of Community Psychology

DOI: 10.1007/bf00922690

Authors: Douglas D. Perkins, Paul Florin, Richard C. Rich, Abraham Wandersman, David M. Chavis

Institutions: University of Utah, University of Rhode Island, Virginia Tech, University of South Carolina, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Language: English

Topic: Crime Patterns and Interventions

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Sustainable cities and communities, Peace, justice, and strong institutions

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2068755764

FWCI: 26.22

Cites: 64

Cited by: 684

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