"Broken windows," urban policing, and the social contexts of race and neighborhood (dis-)empowerment

Robert Sampson’s "Great American City" is a methodologically rich and theoretically broad contribution to the literature on durable inequality in US cities. While empirically clear on the causes and consequences of lasting social exclusion, the text’s insights remain somewhat trapped behin...

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Main Author: King, Mike (Author)
Contributors: Sampson, Robert J. 1963- (Bibliographic antecedent)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
Published: 2013
In: Critical criminology
Year: 2013, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 533-538
Online Access: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Keywords:
Broken Windows
Collective Efficacy
Counter-insurgency
Durable inequality
Giorgio Agamben
Loic Wacquant
Racialization
Robert Sampson
social exclusion
Urban policing
War on drugs
War on Gangs
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Summary:Robert Sampson’s "Great American City" is a methodologically rich and theoretically broad contribution to the literature on durable inequality in US cities. While empirically clear on the causes and consequences of lasting social exclusion, the text’s insights remain somewhat trapped behind the "collective efficacy" language of the "broken windows" theories it attempts to shatter. In looking at community empowerment, or its lack, in the inner-city, the racialized role of urban police must be central to any analysis of the cycle of crime and poverty, and how to break it.
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 538
ISSN:1572-9877
DOI:10.1007/s10612-013-9172-9