Communities, Crime and Social Capital in Contemporary China

Zhong, Lena Y.

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“…As an integral part of the Communist social control regime, policing is quintessentially community oriented, albeit with varied intensity over the decades, and it has long been embedded in neighborhoods in urban China. As Zhong (: 157) succinctly pointed out, “policing in China is by its nature in the community, for the community, and by the community.”…”

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“…The “people's police,” as they are often referred to in the government's discourse, are supposed to maintain a “fish and water” relationship with the masses whereby the police are the fish and the masses are the water (Zhong, : 121). Local police officers visit neighborhoods that are under their jurisdiction, meet residents on a regular basis, and solve a wide range of problems that are often outside the work of law enforcement in the West, including organizing street cleaning, promoting birth control, assisting older persons, and mediating disputes (Zhong, : 122). As a result, these neighborhood police stations in urban China work closely with the activities of neighborhood committees as part of the larger neighborhood control network.…”

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“…As Tanner () observed, economic growth brought about many private entrepreneurs, migrant workers, and the urban unemployed who fall outside of the traditional work‐unit (or Danwei )‐based social control structure. As a result, the traditional ideology‐based “mass line” policing and social control are increasingly strained to deal with complex urban changes (Zhong, : 156).…”

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“…Market‐based or private security companies have sprung up to meet the demands of urbanites for customized social control (Sun and Wu, ). Since its first appearance in 1985 (Zhong, : 159), security service firms (or bao'an fuwu gongsi) have become ubiquitous in urban China and frequently work in tandem with real estate management companies ( wu‐ye ) to provide services to maintain social order in urban communities. Initially prompted by the security needs of foreign‐owned enterprises, private security firms are considered subsidiaries of the local branches of the police and are believed to cover one third of all police work serving clients such as manufacturing businesses, banks, restaurants, and residential complexes (Dutton, : 86; Zhong and Grabosky, ).…”

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“…Neighborhood committees embody the ideological commitment to create and sustain order in accordance with the central political regime by means of the “mass line” or “relying on the masses” (Zhong, : 111; see also Read and Chen, ; Tang and Parish, ; Whyte and Parish, ). Neighborhood committees coordinate their activities closely with the local city government.…”

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Neighborhood Social Control and Perceptions of Crime and Disorder in Contemporary Urban China*

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KEYWORDS: neighborhood organization, social control, perceptions of crime and disorder, urban China By drawing on the two streams of Western literature on "neighborhood effects" and perceptions of neighborhood disorder adapted to the distinctive organizational infrastructure of neighborhoods in contemporary urban China, we examine the contextual effects of different forms of neighborhood social control (i.e., collective efficacy, semipublic control, public control, and market-based control) on different types of perceived disorder (i.e., criminal activity, social disorder, physical disorder, and total disorder) across neighborhoods. The analyses are based on data collected in the year 2013 from a survey of approximately 2,500 households in 50 neighborhoods across the city of Tianjin. Collective efficacy as a form of informal control has a significant effect only for perceived social disorder. Public control as measured by the activities of neighborhood police stations has a significant contextual effect on all forms of perceived disorder, whereas the role of market-based control as represented by contracted community services is limited to perceived physical disorder. Finally, semipublic control as measured by the activities of neighborhood committees significantly affects all forms of perceived disorder, but the direction of the effect is positive. We interpret this positive effect with reference to the complex processes surrounding the "translation" of neighborhood disorderly conditions into perceptions of disorder.A key development in criminology over the course of the past few decades has been the resurgence of interest in "neighborhood effects" to understand disorderly conditions, including criminal activity (Sampson, Morenoff, and Gannon-Rowley, 2002). As Skogan (2012: 174; has observed, the accumulated evidence is difficult to summarize succinctly because the concept of disorder encompasses a wide range of concrete

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The Glass is at Least Half Full: Reflections on the Internationalization of Criminology

Messner

2021

Int Criminol

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The purpose of this essay is to offer reflections on the extent to which and the ways in which the production of criminological knowledge has (or has not) become more "international." With respect to extent, I review previous work that has searched for evidence of internationalization by means of content analyses of criminological scholarship and by inquiries into the membership on editorial boards of journals. I build upon these studies by reporting original evidence on internationalization as reflected in the publications appearing in Criminology, the journal of the American Society of Criminology, over the course of the current century. With respect to the ways in which internationalization has unfolded, I review some of the comparative research that has been directed towards assessing the applicability of criminological theories developed in the West to the context of East Asian societies. I conclude with brief remarks about the internationalization of criminology in the future.

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Theft from the person in urban China: assessing the diurnal effects of opportunity and social ecology

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Habitat International

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Communities, Crime and Social Capital in Contemporary China

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Neighborhood Social Control and Perceptions of Crime and Disorder in Contemporary Urban China*

Neighborhood Social Control and Perceptions of Crime and Disorder in Contemporary Urban China*

The Glass is at Least Half Full: Reflections on the Internationalization of Criminology

Theft from the person in urban China: assessing the diurnal effects of opportunity and social ecology

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