Systematic Social Observation

Systematic Social Observation abstract and data files

Physical Disorder

• OQ7  cigarette cigar on sidewalk/gutters
• OQ10  garbage litter in street sidewalk
• OQ6  empty beer bottles visible in streets
• D22_2  tagging graffiti
• D23  evidence-graffiti been painted over
• D22_1  gang graffiti
• OQ11  abandoned cars
• OQ8  condoms on the sidewalk gutter
• OQ9  needles syringes on sidewalks gutters
• D22_3  political message graffiti

Social Disorder

• D47  adults loiter congregate hang out
• D52  people drink alcohol on block face
• D43  peer group is a gang
• D53  drunken intoxicated people on block face
• D46  adults argue fight hostile
• D50  prostitutes on block face
• D51  people sell illegal drugs on block face

Physical Decay

• D6  condition of residential unit
• D121  burned out boarded abandoned house
• D122  burned out board abandoned commercial building
• D11  condition of building
• D1_4  land use vacant house
• D18  condition of recreational facility

Commercial Building Security

• D14  security bars gratings on building window
• D13  % properties with pull down metal gates

Alcohol/Tobacco Advertising

• D119  signs advertising tobacco products
• D120  signs advertising beer whiskey other alcohol

Bars/Liquor Stores

• D62  # bars and alcoholic beverage services
• D86  # liquor stores

Citations

Raudenbush, Stephen W., and Robert J. Sampson. "Ecometrics: Toward a Science of Assessing Ecological Settings, with Application to the Systematic Social Observation of Neighborhoods," Sociological Methodology, Vol. 29 (1999): 1-41.

Sampson, Robert J., and Stephen W. Raudenbush. "Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of 'Broken Windows,'" Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 67, 4 (2004): 319-342.

Sampson, Robert J., and Stephen W. Raudenbush. "Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods," The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 105, 3 (November 1999): 603-651.