RT Article
T1 A legal impact study of a nuisance property ordinance
JF Criminology, criminal justice, law & society
VO 16
IS 2
SP 42
OP 55
A1 Koehle, Greg
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1580314112
AB This  research  involves  a  legal  impact  study  of  the  State  College  (Pennsylvania)  Nuisance  Rental  Property  Ordinance.  The Ordinance is based on the concept of third party policing and was designed to reduce crime and disorder in nuisance rental  properties.  The  impact  of  the  Ordinance  was  assessed  by  employing  an  interrupted  time  series  design  which  examined five years of pre-Ordinance crimes against five years of post-Ordinance crimes in nuisance rental properties. The impact was also assessed by comparing the crime rate in nuisance rental properties against the general crime rate in State College. The data suggest that the Ordinance was very successful in reducing crime in nuisance rental properties.
K1 Legal impact study
K1 Third party policing
K1 Crime prevention