RT Article
T1 Does Collective Efficacy Matter at the Micro Geographic Level?: Findings from a Study Of Street Segments
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 4
SP 873
OP 891
A1 Weisburd, David 1954-
A2 Uding, Clair
A2 Wooditch, Alese
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1724478605
AB Many scholars argue that collective efficacy is not relevant to understanding crime at the microgeographic level. We examine variation in collective efficacy across streets with different levels of crime in Baltimore City, MD, and, then, employ multilevel modelling to assess this relationship. We find that people who live in crime hot spots have much lower levels of collective efficacy than people who live in non-hot spot streets and that this relationship persists when controlling for a large number of potential confounders both at the street and community levels. These findings suggest the importance of collective efficacy both in understanding and controlling crime at microgeographic units.
K1 Collective efficacy
K1 Crime hot spots
K1 Crime and place
K1 Street segments
K1 Baltimore
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa007