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Informal Social Control of Crime in High Drug Use Neighborhoods in Louisville and Lexington, Kentucky, 2000

(2 datasets; 6,574 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Warner, Barbara D.

Summary: This neighborhood-level study sought to explore the effect of cultural disorganization, in terms of both weakened conventional culture and value heterogeneity, on informal social control, and the extent to which these effects may be conditioned by the level of drug use in the neighborhood. Data for Part 1 were collected from face-to-face and telephone interviews with households in the targeted sample. Part 2 is comprised of data collected from the United States Census 1990 Summary Tape Fi... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03412.v1

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