2013
DOI: 10.1177/0004865812470118
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Policing community problems: Exploring the role of formal social control in shaping collective efficacy

Abstract: Research finds police-led crime control interventions focusing on places and involving partnerships tend to yield positive crime control outcomes. Some scholars argue that these positive outcomes are achieved when police use place-based, partnership-oriented interventions to facilitate and encourage collective efficacy (CE). The corollary being that these CE-enhancing efforts lead to less crime. Nevertheless differentiating the police activities that impact CE across different types of communities is not well … Show more

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“…Coping strategies to deal with the latter can bring about further social isolation and avoidance (Rogers et al, ). A lack of clear visible leadership around a matter of group or locality concern can also suppress collective efficacy (Pegram et al, ; Petrosino & Pace, ), as do lack of skills with engaging with, and mistrust of formal organisations (Rogers et al, ; Sargeant et al, ). Cultural barriers, such as expectations from others for reciprocity, may also contribute to a lack or diminution of collective efficacy (Mok & Martinson, ).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Coping strategies to deal with the latter can bring about further social isolation and avoidance (Rogers et al, ). A lack of clear visible leadership around a matter of group or locality concern can also suppress collective efficacy (Pegram et al, ; Petrosino & Pace, ), as do lack of skills with engaging with, and mistrust of formal organisations (Rogers et al, ; Sargeant et al, ). Cultural barriers, such as expectations from others for reciprocity, may also contribute to a lack or diminution of collective efficacy (Mok & Martinson, ).…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Thus, community responses to NYPD's stop-and-frisk activity may be inhibited if neighborhood-based organizations in minority communities are weak, limited in reach, or distanced from crime and safety issues (Skogan, 1988(Skogan, , 2012. Some have suggested that police activity itself can further weaken already low levels of informal, resident-based controls and collective efficacy, especially when residents perceive the police strategies to be ineffective, unjust, or targeting minorities (Kochel, 2012;Kubrin & Weitzer, 2003;Sargeant, Wickes, & Mazerolle, 2013;Silver & Miller, 2004). Some have suggested that police activity itself can further weaken already low levels of informal, resident-based controls and collective efficacy, especially when residents perceive the police strategies to be ineffective, unjust, or targeting minorities (Kochel, 2012;Kubrin & Weitzer, 2003;Sargeant, Wickes, & Mazerolle, 2013;Silver & Miller, 2004).…”
Section: Organizational Infrastructurementioning
confidence: 99%
“…3. Alternately, certain types of police activity and crime may reduce social control (Sargeant, Wickes, & Mazerolle, 2013) and weaken the organizational infrastructure. LotInfo (2004) was used as the sampling frame in combination with land use data from the New York Department of City Planning.…”
Section: Declaration Of Conflicting Interestsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…As administrative boundaries are demarcated for non-research purposes, these boundaries may not represent meaningful neighbourhoods or reflect the spatial patterning of the social phenomena under examination (Rengert & Lockwood, 2009). This can be problematic because if administrative boundaries artificially divide an ethnic enclave into multiple neighbourhoods, segregation indices will underestimate the level of segregation (Oberwittler & Wikstrom, 2009 (Benier & Wickes, 2016;Foster et al, 2010;Sargeant et al, 2013;Wickes et al, 2013a;Wickes et al, 2013b;Zahnow et al, 2013) Research suggests residents recognise their state suburb as their local neighbourhood with most able to name the suburb in which they live (Mazerolle et al, 2007). Further studies find certain suburbs are stigmatised by high rates of crime and disorder -a trend which is not seen for other administrative units such as local government areas or postcodes (Palmer, Ziersch, Arthuson & Baum, 2005).…”
Section: Unit Of Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Data for this thesis are drawn from three separate sources and aggregated to the state suburba common unit of analysis for neighbourhood effects research in the Australian context (Benier & Wickes, 2016;Colic-Peisker & Robertson, 2015;Foster, Giles-Corti & Knuiman, 2010;Sargeant, Wickes & Mazerolle, 2013;Wickes et al, 2013a;Wickes et al, 2013b;Zahnow et al, 2013). Crime incident data were sourced from the Queensland Police Service (QPS) and the New South Wales…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%