RT Article
T1 Neighborhood social control and perceptions of crime and disorder in contemporary urban China
JF Criminology
VO 55
IS 3
SP 631
OP 663
A1 Zhang, Lening
A2 Messner, Steven F.
A2 Zhang, Sheldon X.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1570683093
AB By drawing on the two streams of Western literature on “neighborhood effects” and perceptions of neighborhood disorder adapted to the distinctive organizational infrastructure of neighborhoods in contemporary urban China, we examine the contextual effects of different forms of neighborhood social control (i.e., collective efficacy, semipublic control, public control, and market-based control) on different types of perceived disorder (i.e., criminal activity, social disorder, physical disorder, and total disorder) across neighborhoods. The analyses are based on data collected in the year 2013 from a survey of approximately 2,500 households in 50 neighborhoods across the city of Tianjin. Collective efficacy as a form of informal control has a significant effect only for perceived social disorder. Public control as measured by the activities of neighborhood police stations has a significant contextual effect on all forms of perceived disorder, whereas the role of market-based control as represented by contracted community services is limited to perceived physical disorder. Finally, semipublic control as measured by the activities of neighborhood committees significantly affects all forms of perceived disorder, but the direction of the effect is positive. We interpret this positive effect with reference to the complex processes surrounding the “translation” of neighborhood disorderly conditions into perceptions of disorder.
K1 Neighborhood organization
K1 Social control
K1 Perceptions of crime and disorder
K1 Urban China
K1 Nachbarschaftsinitativen
K1 Soziale Kontrolle
K1 Wahrnehmung
K1 Kriminalität
DO 10.1111/1745-9125.12142