The Relationship Between Citizen Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Neighborhood Violent Crime
The Relationship Between Citizen Perceptions of Collective Efficacy and Neighborhood Violent Crime
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DOI：
10.1177/0011128710386202
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发表时间：
2015-02-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Schnebly, Stephen M.
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作者：
Armstrong, Todd A.;Katz, Charles M.;Schnebly, Stephen M.
目前的工作评估了受访者对集体效能的看法与邻里暴力之间的关系。分析中使用的数据结合了亚利桑那州梅萨的社区调查和人口普查数据。因素分析提供了关于集体效能的因素结构的混合证据；因此，使用单独的回归模型来检验集体效能、社会凝聚力和干预意愿对邻里暴力水平的影响。分析发现，包括集中劣势和居住不稳定在内的社区结构特征显著预测集体效能、社会凝聚力和干预意愿的感知。反过来，在控制了集中劣势、居住不稳定和个人人口特征的水平后，这些变量中的每一个都与暴力犯罪有关。当社会凝聚力和干预意愿被包括在一个回归模型中时，只有社会凝聚力才能预测邻里暴力。社会凝聚力和暴力犯罪具有相互影响，这些影响既是负面的，也是具有统计意义的。
The current work assesses the relationship between respondent perceptions of collective efficacy and neighborhood violence. Data used in the analysis combined a community survey from Mesa, Arizona, with census data. Factor analysis provided mixed evidence regarding the factor structure of collective efficacy; therefore, separate regression models were used to test the influence of collective efficacy, social cohesion, and willingness to intervene on levels of neighborhood violence. Analyses found that community structural characteristics including concentrated disadvantage and residential instability significantly predicted perceptions of collective efficacy, social cohesion, and willingness to intervene. In turn each of these variables was related to violent crime after controlling for levels of concentrated disadvantage, residential instability, and individual demographic characteristics. When social cohesion and willingness to intervene were included in a single regression model, only social cohesion was predictive of neighborhood violence. Social cohesion and violent crime had reciprocal effects that were both negative and statistically significant.