Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood

Pattillo, Mary

doi:10.1093/sf/76.3.747

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“…In these circumstances, Wilson argues, social integration may serve to disseminate problematic behavior. Drawing on Pattillo (1998) and Pattillo-McCoy (1999), and Venkatesh (1997), Browning et al (2004) demonstrate that social network interaction and exchange limit the effectiveness of neighborhood social control orientations in regulating the prevalence of crime. In this “negotiated coexistence” model, when social interaction and exchange are rooted in high levels of neighborhood social integration, close-knit social ties may come into conflict with generalized expectations for informal social control.…”

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“…In this “negotiated coexistence” model, when social interaction and exchange are rooted in high levels of neighborhood social integration, close-knit social ties may come into conflict with generalized expectations for informal social control. For instance, interpersonal obligations may limit inclinations to sanction criminal or delinquent behavior (e.g., when residents choose not to call the police when they observe a close neighbor’s child engaging in criminal behavior [Pattillo 1998]).…”

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Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization

Browning

Calder

Soller³

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American Journal of Sociology

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Drawing on the social disorganization tradition and the social ecological perspective of Jane Jacobs, the authors hypothesize that neighborhoods composed of residents who intersect in space more frequently as a result of routine activities will exhibit higher levels of collective efficacy, intergenerational closure, and social network interaction and exchange. They develop this approach employing the concept of ecological networks—two-mode networks that indirectly link residents through spatial overlap in routine activities. Using data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey, they find evidence that econetwork extensity (the average proportion of households in the neighborhood to which a given household is tied through any location) and intensity (the degree to which household dyads are characterized by ties through multiple locations) are positively related to changes in social organization between 2000–2001 and 2006–2008. These findings demonstrate the relevance of econetwork characteristics—heretofore neglected in research on urban neighborhoods—for consequential dimensions of neighborhood social organization.

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Section: The Origins Of Neighborhood Social Organizationmentioning

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Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization

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Calder

Soller³

et al. 2017

American Journal of Sociology

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“…Scholars such as Kornhauser (1978) and Sampson (1988) articulated theoretical models linking variation in levels of intra-neighborhood informal social ties with the collective capacity to achieve pro-social behavioral health outcomes for youth. Yet empirical findings on the benefits of social networks for neighborhood crime and youth wellbeing have been mixed (Bellair, 1997; Pattillo, 1998; Browning, Feinberg, & Dietz 2004). Additionally, community network studies suggest most strong social ties maintained by contemporary urban residents extend beyond the local neighborhood (Fischer, 1982; Wellman, 1979).…”

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“…But recent empirical research has found mixed support for the claim that dense, closely tied informal social networks yield benefits for neighborhood residents (Bellair & Browning, 2010; Bellair, 1997; Browning, Dietz, & Feinberg, 2004; Pattillo, 1998). Consequently, questions regarding the extent and nature of neighborhood social network influence on youth well-being remain unsettled.…”

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Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach

Browning

Soller

Jackson

2015

Social Science & Medicine

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This study integrates insights from social network analysis, activity space perspectives, and theories of urban and spatial processes to present an innovative approach to neighborhood effects on health-risk behavior among youth. We suggest spatial patterns of neighborhood residents’ non-home routine activities may be conceptualized as ecological, or “eco”-networks, which are two-mode networks that indirectly link residents through socio-spatial overlap in routine activities. We further argue structural configurations of eco-networks are consequential for youth’s behavioral health. In this study we focus on a key structural feature of eco-networks—the neighborhood-level extent to which households share two or more activity locations, or eco-network reinforcement—and its association with two dimensions of health-risk behavior, substance use and delinquency/sexual activity. Using geographic data on non-home routine activity locations among respondents from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey (L.A.FANS), we constructed neighborhood-specific eco-networks by connecting sampled households to “activity clusters,” which are sets of spatially-proximate activity locations. We then measured eco-network reinforcement and examined its association with adolescent dimensions of health risk behavior employing a sample of 830 youth ages 12-17 nested in 65 census tracts. We also examined whether neighborhood-level social processes (collective efficacy and intergenerational closure) mediate the association between eco-network reinforcement and the outcomes considered. Results indicated eco-network reinforcement exhibits robust negative associations with both substance use and delinquency/sexual activity scales. Eco-network reinforcement effects were not explained by potential mediating variables. In addition to introducing a novel theoretical and empirical approach to neighborhood effects on youth, our findings highlight the importance of eco-network reinforcement for adolescent behavioral health.

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“…As is often observed among gang members or drug dealers, the studied group members desperately wanted to ensure that their younger relatives would not become involved in the same clandestine world. 30 At the same time, their concern for the younger generation was not only reflected in their attempts to prevent them from engaging in crime, but was also transparent in many other facets of life, such as caring about their citizenship status, their relationships, their educational attainment, or their occupational opportunities.…”

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"What Do You Expect? That We All Dance and Be Happy?" Second-Generation Immigrants and Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform

Bucerius¹

2012

German Politics and Society

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Based on a five-year ethnography, this article looks at Germany's citizenship reform of 1999 from the perspective of a population that is often at the center of attention: second generation immigrant drug dealers. While the reform had the potential to make a significant difference for this group, with respect to both their legal status in the country and perception of Germany, the findings of this article show that the reform did not have such an impact. On the contrary, the reform seems to have had the opposite effect, alienating the young men even more from Germany by keeping citizenship out of reach for them. While some have argued that in the light of supranational citizenship norms and the discourse of citizenship rights as human rights, national citizenship becomes increasingly unimportant as new forms of postnational citizenship gradually emerge, this does not seem to hold true for the young men of this study.

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Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood

Cited by 180 publications

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Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization

Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization

Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach

"What Do You Expect? That We All Dance and Be Happy?" Second-Generation Immigrants and Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform

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Sweet Mothers and Gangbangers: Managing Crime in a Black Middle-Class Neighborhood

Cited by 180 publications

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Ecological Networks and Neighborhood Social Organization

Neighborhoods and adolescent health-risk behavior: An ecological network approach

&quot;What Do You Expect? That We All Dance and Be Happy?&quot; Second-Generation Immigrants and Germany's 1999 Citizenship Reform

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