Unpacking the paradox of neighboring ties: the moderating effect of criminal context on victimization

Cwick, Jaclyn; Doherty, Elaine Eggleston

doi:10.1080/0735648x.2018.1496846

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“…An alternative explanation, according to negotiated coexistence theory (Browning, 2009;Browning et al, 2004), suggests that a decline in direct informal social control could be explained through an allowance for exceptions to normative behavior brought on by offenders' social capital. More specifically, crimeinvolved residents may be able to "negotiate" exceptions to criminal behavior through exchanges with norm-abiding residents given the degree of social capital provided to crime-prone residents in more disadvantaged settings (Browning, 2009;Browning et al, 2004;Cwick & Doherty, 2018). These and other potential explanations should be further examined using data that can both distinguish among forms of informal social control and among the mechanisms that potentially explain these relationships, including negotiated coexistence, social learning, and differential association.…”

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Neighborhood Social Ties and Informal Social Control: When do Neighbors Call the Police or Directly Intervene?

Cwick¹

2022

CCJLS

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Social disorganization theory posits that neighborhood social ties facilitate residents’ engagement in distinct forms of informal social control important for crime reduction, including private, parochial, and public controls (Bursik & Grasmik, 1993). Yet research examining how social ties contribute to various forms of informal social control is rare, despite a recent resurgence in efforts to clarify these measures (see Warner, 2014). The present study examines whether neighborhood social ties influence direct informal social control (i.e., residents’ perceptions that their neighbors will stop a crime themselves or will get another neighbor to help) and indirect informal social control (i.e., residents’ perceptions that their neighbors will call the police) within ordinary least squares regression. Findings indicate that previous studies, which have relied on global measures of informal social control, have concealed more nuanced relationships regarding social ties and forms of informal social control. More specifically, neighborhood social ties were positively related to direct informal social control at low levels of disadvantage, but were negatively related to direct informal social control in neighborhoods with high concentrated disadvantage, while social ties were positively related to indirect informal social control regardless of disadvantaged context. Findings point to the importance of including more specific measures of informal social control in current and future residential surveys.

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Neighborhood Social Ties and Informal Social Control: When do Neighbors Call the Police or Directly Intervene?

Cwick¹

2022

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“…In fact, people who come from places with dangerous reputations often engage in "othering" behaviors to set themselves apart from the stigmatized place (Keene and Padilla 2010). These strategies appear justified as young men who have close social ties to their neighbors in violent neighborhoods are more likely to be victims of violent crime than those who do not (Cwick and Doherty 2018). Avoiding the closest school may, therefore, be a strategy used to encourage forming social bonds outside of the neighborhood and limiting social interaction with those seen as being the cause of local violence.…”

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Anywhere but Here: Neighborhood Violence and Local School Preferences in Baltimore City

Burdick-Will,

Gebo,

Williams

2024

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In this study we examine whether students in violent neighborhoods actively avoid their local school as a form of social and physical protection. Specifically, we use ten-years of administrative data (2010-20) from the high school choice open enrollment program in Baltimore City Public School System (BCPSS) to evaluate the interaction between neighborhood violence and geographic proximity when predicting choice behavior. We find that, adjusting for observed school characteristics and constant unobserved student characteristics, students from more violent neighborhoods are substantially less likely to choose their closest school than those in safer neighborhoods; even when the closest school is listed, it is ranked lower for students from more violent neighborhoods than for students in safer ones. These findings have implications for how we think about the relationship between neighborhoods and educational opportunity in an era of choice.

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“…In fact, people who come from places with dangerous reputations often engage in ''othering'' behaviors to set themselves apart from the stigmatized place (Keene and Padilla 2010). These strategies appear justified, given that young men who have close social ties to their neighbors in violent neighborhoods are more likely to be victims of violent crime than those who do not (Cwick and Doherty 2018). Avoiding the closest school may thus be a strategy used to encourage forming social bonds outside of the neighborhood and limiting social interaction with those seen as being the cause of local violence.…”

Section: Pushed By Neighborhood Violencementioning

confidence: 99%

Anywhere but Here: Neighborhood Violence and Local School Preferences in Baltimore City

Burdick-Will,

Gebo,

Williams

2023

Sociol Educ

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In this study, we examine whether students in violent neighborhoods actively avoid their local school as a form of social and physical protection. Specifically, we use 10 years of administrative data (2010–2020) from the high school choice open enrollment program in the Baltimore City Public School System to evaluate the interaction between neighborhood violence and geographic proximity when predicting choice behavior. We find that, adjusting for observed school characteristics and constant unobserved student characteristics, students from more violent neighborhoods are substantially less likely to choose their closest school than are students in safer neighborhoods; even when the closest school is listed, it is ranked lower for students from more violent neighborhoods than for students in safer ones. These findings have implications for how we think about the relationship between neighborhoods and educational opportunity in an era of choice.

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Unpacking the paradox of neighboring ties: the moderating effect of criminal context on victimization

Cited by 4 publications

References 51 publications

Neighborhood Social Ties and Informal Social Control: When do Neighbors Call the Police or Directly Intervene?

Neighborhood Social Ties and Informal Social Control: When do Neighbors Call the Police or Directly Intervene?

Anywhere but Here: Neighborhood Violence and Local School Preferences in Baltimore City

Anywhere but Here: Neighborhood Violence and Local School Preferences in Baltimore City

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