Instability, informal control, and criminogenic situations: community effects of returning prisoners

Incarceration, whose putative goal is the reduction of crime, may at higher concentrations actually increase crime by overwhelming neighborhoods with limited resources. The present research poses and provides initial support for an explanation of this paradoxical consequence of a crime control strat...

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Main Author: Drakulich, Kevin M. (Author)
Contributors: Crutchfield, Robert D. ; Matsueda, Ross L. ; Rose, Kristin
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2012
In: Crime, law and social change
Year: 2012, Volume: 57, Issue: 5, Pages: 493-519
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Census Tract
Collective Efficacy
Housing Instability
Informal Social Control
Violent Crime