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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"micro-places"”.
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Collective efficacy in micro-places: Exploring the perception and enforcement of moral rules in neighbourhood settings
… to one which has been reappraised as a micro-level explanation for crime within Situational Action Theory. Observing the concept of collective efficacy to be a highly localised social process, chapter 3 then explores theoretically how both physical and social features of settings may …
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The Kansas City Foot Patrol project : An evaluation of the effectiveness of foot patrol in violent crime micro-places
… effectiveness of foot patrol in violent crime micro-places. Specifically the goal of foot patrol was to reduce incidents of aggravated assaults and robberies in the micro-places. For a period of 90 days 8 pairs of rookie officers patrolled on foot in violent crime micro-places. The foot patrols …
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Where Gunshots Turn Fatal: A Geographic Examination of the Spatial Patterning of Gun Violence
… typologies (fatal and non-fatal) concentrate in micro-places, 2) whether they co-locate at micro-places, and 3) the likely community characteristics and place-based dynamics that explain these observed patterns. Importantly, the role of place-based dynamics related to the post-incident …