RT Article
T1 Located institutions: neighborhood frames, residential preferences, and the case of policing
JF The American journal of sociology
VO 125
IS 4
SP 917
OP 973
A1 Bell, Monica C.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1698524358
AB How do parents weigh police presence and police activity in their assessments of a neighborhood’s suitability for raising children? How do place-bound institutions relate to neighborhood frames? This article introduces located institutions as a way of articulating how certain institutions—here, the police—become a lens through which parents make meaning of places and thus express preferences for particular neighborhoods or communities. By drawing from 73 interviews with a diverse sample of parents in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, this article shows how parents draw on their perceptions of the police as an attractive amenity or a public nuisance as a way of articulating neighborhood frames and making sense of their residential preferences. More broadly, this article envisions the perception of institutions as a key mechanism that shapes neighborhood frames and residential preferences.
K1 Neighborhood
K1 Residential preferences
K1 Policing
K1 Police activity
K1 Child Education
K1 Parenting
DO 10.1086/708004