Objective To study the association between social disorganization and youth violence rates
in rural communities. Method We employed rural M issouri counties (N= 106) as units of …

Researchers and practitioners have made great strides at implementing crime reduction and
prevention policies in urban areas; however, such policies are largely absent in less densely …

Traditional urban theories of community crime development increasingly are being adapted
and evaluated for their relevance to the crime problems of smaller and less urban settings …

Purpose–A neighborhood‐based notion of the distribution of policing services is a hallmark
of community policing philosophy. The purpose of this research is to focus on two policy …

Geographical information systems (GIS) utilization has exploded in criminal justice over the
last decade, but there is scant mention of pedagogical models published in the Journal of …

Neighborhood disorder is a social welfare issue that is associated with multiple negative
outcomes for individuals including increased substance use, increased exposure to violence …

Research studying citizen perceptions of safety continues to expand its methodological and
analytical scope. Informed by the incivilities thesis and Latino paradox/revitalization …

The following thesis was heavily structured around a theoretical framework which combined
operationalized variables from opportunity and social disorganization theories to create an …

Studies of social capital and crime have become quite popular in recent history, and a
plethora of empirical tests have sought to clarify relationships between the two variables …

The link between community characteristics and crime has been at the forefront of
criminological research for some time. Social disorganization theory focuses on the …