Dissertation Research: Institutional Politics and Crime Control in Cities

SES 0002291 PI：卡伦海默尔，托马斯D Stucky这个项目开发和测试的政治资源理论，如何城市政策和做法影响犯罪率。 政治资源理论关注的是福利政策是如何从各种行为者追求他们的利益，根据他们可用的资源。 通过识别城市中的行为者和资源，本研究开发了一个理论，城市政治如何影响犯罪机会和社会解体，主要是通过福利计划和警务。 该理论适用于1981年至1996年超过25，000的城市。 它使用汇集的跨部门时间序列分析来检验关于犯罪和贫穷控制努力的假设，以及它们对社会混乱、犯罪机会和犯罪率的影响。

SES 0002291PI: Karen Heimer, Thomas D StuckyThis project develops and tests a political resource theory of how city policies and practices affect crime rates. Political resource theories focus on how welfare policies result from various actors pursuing their interests, based on the resources available to them. By identifying actors and resources in cities, this study develops a theory of how city politics affects criminal opportunity and social disorganization, primarily through welfare programs and policing. The theory is applied to cities over 25,000 for the years 1981-96. It uses pooled cross-sectional time-series analyses to test hypotheses regarding both crime and poverty control efforts, as well as their effects on social disorganization, criminal opportunity and crime rates.