Gangs of Chicago: Perceptions of Crime and its Effect on the Recreation Behavior of Latino Residents in Urban Communities

Stodolska, Monika; Acevedo, Juan Carlos; Shinew, Kimberly J.

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“…Parks can be an attractor for drugs, gangs, homeless, and disorder, and thus they are, or at least can be perceived as, crime hot spots (Stodolska, Acevedo, & Shinew 2009), although some research has not found this effect (Tower & Groff 2016). Parks can also be crime generators as parks attract large numbers of people, some of whom may engage in illegal activities (Groff & McCord 2011, see also Hipp 2016.…”

Section: Parks and The Community Context Of Crimementioning

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“…A fourth possibility is that parks may have the perception of being an unsafe place and lead to fear among local residents. If a park is perceived as being a dangerous place, regardless whether it actually is, residents will be less likely to participate in informal social control either explicitly by not intervening to stop a criminal act or implicitly by avoiding going to a park Parks and crime 5 (Skogan 1986;Stodolska, et al 2009), both implying that parks will have more crime. 1 How people's activity patterns impact fear of crime may also depend on the extent of social integration in the neighborhood (Hunter & Baumer 1982).…”

Section: Parks and The Community Context Of Crimementioning

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Parks as crime inhibitors or generators: Examining parks and the role of their nearby context

Boessen

Hipp

2018

Social Science Research

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Although neighborhood studies often focus on the presence of some particular entity and its consequences for a variety of local processes, a frequent limitation is the failure to account more broadly for the local context. This paper therefore examines the role of parks for community crime, but contributes to the literature by testing whether the context of land use and demographics nearby parks moderate the parks and crime relationship. A key feature of our approach is that we also test how these characteristics explain crime in the park, nearby the park, and in other neighborhoods in the city with data from nine cities across the United States (N= 109,808 blocks). We use multilevel Poisson and negative binomial regressions to test our ideas for six types of street crime. Our findings show that nearby land uses and socio-demographic characteristics are a key driver of crime being located within the park or nearby the park. Our results also show a clear distance decay pattern for the impact of various land uses and sociodemographics nearby parks. The results emphasize a need for research to consider the broader socio-spatial context in which crime generators/inhibitors are embedded.

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Section: Parks and The Community Context Of Crimementioning

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Parks as crime inhibitors or generators: Examining parks and the role of their nearby context

Boessen

Hipp

2018

Social Science Research

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“…The scale ranged from 5 to 15. To measure direct victimization, a one-item measure was created based on previous research with the target population [38]: respondents were asked whether, in the last year, they had been hurt by someone in the neighborhood (no00; yes 01).…”

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“…The neighborhood in which the schools are located and that encompasses the attendance boundaries for the schools -known as Little Village-is characterized by high poverty and crime [14,38]. Little Village is the largest Mexican neighborhood in Chicago.…”

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Pathways to Outdoor Recreation, Physical Activity, and Delinquency Among Urban Latino Adolescents

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Background Little is known about how physical activity and various high-risk behaviors of youth are associated, particularly in disadvantaged, minority neighborhoods. Purpose We examine whether fear, victimization, and perceived incivilities are associated with physical activity and outdoor recreation among Latino youth and whether involvement in physical activity is associated with delinquency. Methods Path models were assessed using data collected from school-based surveys of 390 youth across 3 schools in Chicago, Illinois. Results Fear was associated with low levels of physical activity and outdoor recreation, while incivilities were associated with reduced levels of outdoor recreation but not physical activity. Outdoor recreation exhibited a positive association with delinquency. Some effects differed by gender. Conclusions The findings reinforce considering different interventions to encourage physical activity and outdoor recreation for girls versus boys, and thinking comprehensively about lowering the risk for delinquency when encouraging outdoor recreation.

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“…Most of the research on this question concludes that disorder is indeed connected to fear (see C. L. Gibson, Zhao, Lovrich, & Gaffney, 2002 for a succinct overview), but studies differ in terms of the strength of the connection (Lane & Meeker, 2003;Skogan, 1992;Taylor, 2001). Summarizing this research, Stodolska et al (2009) note that, on the whole, "people who see signs of disorder in their communities, such as trash, broken windows, rundown buildings, graffiti, and gang members and prostitutes hanging out, perceive them as signs of deeper underlying problems" like more violent crime and thus become more afraid (p. 469).…”

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In Defense of Law and Order: Urban Space, Fear of Crime, and the Virtues of Social Control

Gibson

2014

Journal of Communication Inquiry

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There is a long tradition in critical/cultural studies that views the raising of concerns about crime and disorder as an ideological gambit concealing a more sinister project of social control. This article offers a friendly critique and revision of this position, arguing that critical communication scholars should treat urban disorder and public fears of crime as serious policy problems, if only because pervasive fears of crime impose great harm on disadvantaged urban residents. To this end, this article reviews recent work in the fear-of-crime literature to examine both the causes of fear as well as the efficacy and ethics of specific fear-reduction strategies. Drawing on this review, the article argues that the most promising response to the fear of crime is not zero tolerance policing, but rather increasing the collective efficacy of-that is, the feeling of solidarity among-neighbors. The article concludes with a discussion of the role digital networking tools could play in building neighborhood collective efficacy.

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Gangs of Chicago: Perceptions of Crime and its Effect on the Recreation Behavior of Latino Residents in Urban Communities

Cited by 36 publications

References 29 publications

Parks as crime inhibitors or generators: Examining parks and the role of their nearby context

Parks as crime inhibitors or generators: Examining parks and the role of their nearby context

Pathways to Outdoor Recreation, Physical Activity, and Delinquency Among Urban Latino Adolescents

In Defense of Law and Order: Urban Space, Fear of Crime, and the Virtues of Social Control

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