RT Article
T1 Environmental design and neighborhood context
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 12
SP 1819
OP 1855
A1 Deryol, Rustu
A2 Payne, Troy
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1780533810
AB The present study examines the role of opportunity on crime counts within the multicontextual opportunity theoretical framework. We used weighted multilevel regression modeling of site observation data from a Cincinnati-based sample of 1003 apartments nested within 228 census block groups. Results indicate that only a couple of environmental design features are associated with crime in the expected direction, and some of these associations are neighborhood-context-dependent. We conclude that the results support the propositions of multicontextual opportunity theory suggesting that neighborhood level factors condition the relationship between micro level opportunity factors and crime. Since there is a scant literature on this topic, more research is needed to see if the findings hold true in other places.
K1 Environmental Design
K1 Multilevel opportunity
K1 Apartment complexes
DO 10.1177/0011128720962448