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SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH
卷 42, 期 3, 页码 611-632出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.12.012
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Perceptions of crime; Perceptions of disorder; Perceptions of police; Perceptions of informal control
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How do individuals make judgments about the safety of their neighborhood from crime? Using survey, census, police, and systematic social observation data from Seattle, this work suggests that residents draw on their perceptions of potential lurking dangers-especially in the form of physical or social disorder-and on their evaluations of the efficacy of local formal and informal social control efforts. In fact, residents draw on their evaluations of local social control efforts to determine how concerned they should be by perceptions of local disorder. The results question the importance of actual disorder relative to perceptions of disorder and suggest a new and indirect explanation for the link between the racial composition and perceptions of the danger posed by crime-in particular that race colors the way people view local disorder, the police, and the capacity for informal social control. (c) 2012 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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