Objectives To systematically review the evidence of the relationship between policing and
collective efficacy. Methods A systematic review and meta-analysis synthesising data from …

Building on the insights of the self-efficacy literature, this study highlights that collective
efficacy is a collective perception that comes from a process. This study emphasizes that 1) …

Families are impacted by a variety of risk and protective factors for maltreatment at multiple
levels of the social ecology. Individual-and neighborhood-level poverty has consistently …

Objectives Broken windows theory identifies community social control as a central
mechanism for controlling crime. In turn, controlling disorder is seen as the primary method …

This paper examines the importance of neighbourhood context in explaining violence in
London. Exploring in a new context Sampson's work on the relationship between …

Objectives While there has been significant study of the relationship between police
legitimacy and its key antecedents-procedural justice (PJ) and police effectiveness (PE) at …

Applying Robert work on interdependent spatial patterns in a new setting, we link structural
characteristics of the neighbourhood to public beliefs and worries about neighbourhood …

Parental racial socialization is a parenting tool used to prepare African American
adolescents for managing racial stressors. While it is known that parents' racial …

Many scholars argue that collective efficacy is not relevant to understanding crime at the
microgeographic level. We examine variation in collective efficacy across streets with …

Purpose Microgeographic approaches have received little attention in fear of crime
research. Based on growing evidence of large street-to-street variation in crime, disorder …