Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local Nonprofits on Violent Crime

Largely overlooked in the theoretical and empirical literature on the crime decline is a long tradition of research in criminology and urban sociology that considers how violence is regulated through informal sources of social control arising from residents and organizations internal to communities....

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Published in:	American sociological review Vol. 82; no. 6; pp. 1214 - 1240
Main Authors:	Sharkey, Patrick, Torrats-Espinosa, Gerard, Takyar, Delaram
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publishing 01.12.2017 SAGE Publications American Sociological Association
Subjects:	Causality Cities Communities Community associations Community life Community living Community Relations Crime Crime prevention Crime rates Criminal justice Criminal law Criminal statistics Criminology Homicide Murder Murders & murder attempts Neighborhoods Nonprofit organizations Property Property crimes Property offences Residents Social control Sociology Urban crime Urban sociology Violence Violent crime Violent crimes United States > US nonprofits instrumental variables community systemic model violence
ISSN:	0003-1224, 1939-8271
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