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Assessing the Impacts of Broken Windows Policing Strategies on Citizen Attitudes in Three California Cities: Redlands, Ontario and Colton, 2008-2009 (ICPSR 34427)

Released/updated on: 2016-06-20
Geographic coverage: Colton, Ontario (California), California, Redlands
Time period: 2008-03-01--2008-06-30, 2009-01-01--2009-04-30, 2008-03-01--2009-04-30

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This study examined the impact that a six-month broken windows style policing crackdown on disorder had on residents of three California cities: Colton, Ontario and Redlands. The study investigated four questions:

  1. What is the impact of broken windows policing on fear of crime among residents of the targeted hot spots?
  2. What is the impact of broken windows policing on police legitimacy in the targeted hot spots?
  3. What is the impact of broken windows policing on reports of collective efficacy in the targeted hot spots?
  4. Is broken windows policing at hot spots effective in reducing both actual and perceived levels of disorder and crime in the targeted hot spots?

To answer these questions, a block randomized experimental design was employed to deliver a police intervention targeting disorder to 55 treatment street segments with an equal number of segments serving as controls.

Data were collected on the type and amount of crime before, during, and after implementation as well as interviews of residents before and after the crackdown in order to gauge their perception of its success.

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Indirect Impacts of Community Policing, Jersey City, NJ, 1997-1999 (ICPSR 29430)

Released/updated on: 2014-10-08
Geographic coverage: Jersey City, United States, New Jersey
Time period: 1997-01-01--1999-12-31
This study attempted to measure spatial displacement or diffusion of crime to areas near the targeted sites of police intervention. Data were drawn from a controlled study of displacement and diffusion in Jersey City, New Jersey. Two sites with substantial street-level crime and disorder were targeted and carefully monitored during an experimental period. Two neighboring areas were selected as "catchment areas" from which to assess immediate spatial displacement or diffusion. Intensive police interventions were applied to each target site but not to the catchment areas. More than 6,000 20-minute social observations were conducted in the target and catchment areas. Physical observations of the areas were conducted before, during, and after the interventions as well. These data were supplemented by interviews with local residents and ethnographic field observations.
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Richmond, Virginia/Police Foundation Domestic Violence Partnership, 1999-2000 (ICPSR 25926)

Released/updated on: 2012-06-05
Geographic coverage: United States, Virginia, Richmond
Time period: 1999-04-01--2000-06-30, 1999-10-01--2000-12-31

This study involved the evaluation of the Second Responders Program in Richmond, Virginia as well as a process evaluation of the researcher/practitioner partnership formed between the Police Foundation, the Richmond Police Department, and the Richmond Department of Social Services. Findings were based on two waves of victim interviews with women who received Second Responder intervention and women who received only police intervention. Field researchers contacted eligible subjects and attempted to interview them within 1 week of the domestic violence incident to which police were called. The second interview took place 6 months later. Interviews took place between April, 1999 and December, 2000. The Part 1 (Wave 1 Data) file contains 158 cases and 318 variables. The Part 2 (Wave 2 Data) file contains 120 cases and 691 variables.

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