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dc.contributor.authorSampson, Robert J.
dc.contributor.authorRaudenbush, Stephen W.
dc.contributor.authorEarls, Felton James
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-12T19:28:19Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.citationSampson, Robert J., Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton James Earls. 1997. “Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy.” Science 277 (5328) (August 15): 918-924. doi:10.1126/science.277.5328.918.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0036-8075en_US
dc.identifier.issn1095-9203en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33010407
dc.description.abstractIt is hypothesized that collective efficacy, defined as social cohesion among neighbors combined with their willingness to intervene on behalf of the common good, is linked to reduced violence. This hypothesis was tested on a 1995 survey of 8782 residents of 343 neighborhoods in Chicago, Illinois. Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled. Associations of concentrated disadvantage and residential instability with violence are largely mediated by collective efficacy.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSociologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)en_US
dc.relation.isversionofdoi:10.1126/science.277.5328.918en_US
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dc.titleNeighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacyen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.description.versionVersion of Recorden_US
dc.relation.journalScienceen_US
dash.depositing.authorSampson, Robert J.
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dc.identifier.doi10.1126/science.277.5328.918*
dash.contributor.affiliatedEarls, Felton
dash.contributor.affiliatedSampson, Robert
dc.identifier.orcid0000-0003-4259-8146


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