The Social Ecology of Public Space: Active Streets and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoods

dc.contributor.authorBrowning, Christopher R.
dc.contributor.authorJackson Soller, Aubrey
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-10T15:50:30Z
dc.date.available2020-09-10T15:50:30Z
dc.date.issued2013-11-23
dc.description.abstractDrawing on one element of the discussion by Jacobs (1961) of the social control benefits of “eyes on the street,” this article explores the link between the prevalence of active streets and violence in urban neighborhoods. Three distinct data sources from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods are merged to explore the functional form and potential contingency of the active streets–violence relationship: 1) video data capturing the presence of people on neighborhood streets; 2) longitudinal data on adolescents (11 to 16 years of age) and their self‐reports of witnessing severe violence; and (3) community survey data on neighborhood social organizational characteristics. The results from multilevel models indicate that the proportion of neighborhood streets with adults present exhibits a nonlinear association with exposure to severe violence. At low prevalence, the increasing prevalence of active streets is positively associated with violence exposure. Beyond a threshold, however, increases in the prevalence of active streets serve to reduce the likelihood of violence exposure. The analyses offer no evidence that the curvilinear association between active streets and violence varies by levels of collective efficacy, and only limited evidence that it varies by anonymity. Analyses of data on homicide and violent victimization corroborate these findings.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe authors wish to acknowledge funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (5R01HD057945 "Neighborhood Context and Adolescent Psychological and Behavioral Health"). Thanks to Catherine Calder, Marcus Felson, Herbert Gans, Lauren Krivo, Mei-Po Kwan, Ruth Peterson, and Ralph Taylor for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this manuscript.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1745-9125.12026en_US
dc.format.extent30 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articles postprintsen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2pf6n-ot0e
dc.identifier.citationChristopher R. Browning and Aubrey L. Jackson, THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF PUBLIC SPACE: ACTIVE STREETS AND VIOLENT CRIME IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS, Criminology; 51(4): 1009–1043 (2013) doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12026.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12026
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/19628
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherWileyen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtThe University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
dc.relation.ispartofUMBC Sociology and Anthropology Department Collection
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dc.rightsThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Christopher R. Browning and Aubrey L. Jackson, THE SOCIAL ECOLOGY OF PUBLIC SPACE: ACTIVE STREETS AND VIOLENT CRIME IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS, Criminology; 51(4): 1009–1043 (2013) doi:10.1111/1745-9125.12026., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-9125.12026. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions.
dc.titleThe Social Ecology of Public Space: Active Streets and Violent Crime in Urban Neighborhoodsen_US
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