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Characteristics of High and Low Crime Neighborhoods in Atlanta, 1980

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Principal Investigator(s): Greenberg, Stephanie

Summary: This study examines the question of how some urban neighborhoods maintain a low crime rate despite their proximity and similarity to relatively high crime areas. The purpose of the study is to investigate differences in various dimensions of the concept of territoriality (spatial identity, local ties, social cohesion, informal social control) and physical characteristics (land use, housing, street type, boundary characteristics) in three pairs of neighborhoods in Atlanta, Georgia. The study neig... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07951.v1

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