Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project

Small, Mario Luis

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“…It is also argued that those who place more emphasis on the inter-twining of family and neighbourhood history are more likely to act in accord with that legacy, adopting a particular mode of criminal behaviour (Small 2002), so that individual social and spatial identities become intertwined.…”

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Criminal Neighbourhoods: Does the Density of Prior Offenders in an Area Encourage others to Commit Crime?

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Using crime data over a period of a decade for Glasgow, this paper explores whether the density of prior offenders in a neighbourhoods has an influence on the propensity of others to (re)commence offending. The study shows that the number of 'newly active' offenders in a neighbourhood in the current quarter is positively associated with the density of prior offenders for both violent and property crime from the previous two years. In the case of 'newly active' property offenders, the relationship with active prior offenders is only apparent when prior offender counts exceed the median. The paper postulates that intraneighbourhood social mechanisms may be at work to create these effects. The results suggest that policies which concentrate offenders in particular neighbourhoods may increase the number of 'newly active' offenders, and point to evidence of a threshold at which these effects take place.

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Criminal Neighbourhoods: Does the Density of Prior Offenders in an Area Encourage others to Commit Crime?

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“…30,31 For instance, recent research by Small (2002), 32 characterizing a Puerto Rican enclave in Boston, indicates that age influences perceptions of neighborhood continuity and change and the motivation to maintain social capital. Age may affect perceptions, participation in community life, and, as outlined above, may alter the context of community in unexpected ways.…”

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Neighborhood Age Structure and its Implications for Health

Cagney

2006

J Urban Health

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Age structure at the neighborhood level is rarely considered in contextual studies of health. However, age structure can play a critical role in shaping community life, the availability of resources, and the opportunities for social engagement-all factors that, research suggests, have direct and indirect effects on health. Age structure can be theorized as a compositional effect and as a contextual effect. In addition, the dynamic nature of age structure and the utility of a life course perspective as applied to neighborhood effects research merits attention. Four Chicago neighborhoods are summarized to illustrate how age structure varies across small space, suggesting that neighborhood age structure should be considered a key structural covariate in contextual research on health. Considering age structure implies incorporating not only meaningful cut points for important age groups (e.g., proportion 65 years and over) but attention to the shape of the distribution as well.

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“…The literature on neighborhood conditions has begun to examine more seriously how residents think about and frame the neighborhoods in which they live, based on the idea that framing contributes to social action (Small 2002(Small , 2004Tach 2009). Consistent with this notion, we asked children to describe their perceptions of both their school and neighborhood.…”

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Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children

Tack¹,

Small²

2017

SocScience

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While many studies have examined friendship formation among children in conventional contexts, comparatively fewer have examined how the process is shaped by neighborhood violence. The literature on violence and gangs has identified coping strategies that likely affect friendships, but most children in violent neighborhoods are not gang members, and not all friendship relations involve gangs. We examine the friendship-formation process based on in-depth interviews with 72 students, parents, and teachers in two elementary schools in violent Chicago neighborhoods. All students were African American boys and girls ages 11 to 15. We find that while conventional studies depict friendship formation among children as largely affective in nature, the process among the students we observed was, instead, primarily strategic. The children's strategies were not singular but heterogeneous and malleable in nature. We identify and document five distinct strategies: protection seeking, avoidance, testing, cultivating questioners, and kin reliance. Girls were as affected as boys were, and they also reported additional preoccupations associated with sexual violence. We discuss implications for theories of friendship formation, violence, and neighborhood effects.

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Culture, Cohorts, and Social Organization Theory: Understanding Local Participation in a Latino Housing Project

Cited by 136 publications

References 39 publications

Criminal Neighbourhoods: Does the Density of Prior Offenders in an Area Encourage others to Commit Crime?

Criminal Neighbourhoods: Does the Density of Prior Offenders in an Area Encourage others to Commit Crime?

Neighborhood Age Structure and its Implications for Health

Making Friends in Violent Neighborhoods: Strategies among Elementary School Children

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