Revisiting the crime control benefits of voluntary organizations: organizational presence, organizational capacity, and crime rates in Los Angeles neighborhoods

This study examines the independent effects that the number of voluntary organizations and the total amount of income they possess have on neighborhood crime, over time. Drawing upon a sample of Los Angeles census blocks from 2000 to 2010, I utilize fixed-effects negative binomial regression to esti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wo, James C. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2019
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2019, Volume: 65, Issue: 7, Pages: 916-940
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)
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Keywords:
Community organizations
Kommunale Delinquenzprophylaxe
Kriminalität
Nachbarschaft
Neighborhood crime
Neighborhood watch
Organizational capacity
Organizational opportunity structure
Spatial effects
Verbrechenskontrolle