Disorder and decay: The concept and measurement of perceived neighborhood disorder

Urban Affairs Review

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 412-432

  Ross, Catherine E ^a   Mirowsky, John ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0032935041     PISSN: 10780874     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/10780879922184004     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Bentler, P. M. 1989. EQS structural equations program manual. Los Angeles: BMDP.
2. Bursik, R. J., Jr., and H. G. Grasmick. 1993. Neighborhoods and crime. New York: Lexington Books.
3. Covington, J., and R. B. Taylor. 1991. Fear of crime in urban residential neighborhoods: Implications of between-and within-neighborhood sources for current models. Sociological Quarterly 32 (2): 231-49.
4. Fischer, C. S. 1982. To dwell among friends: Personal networks in town and city. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
5. Garofalo, J., and J. Laub. 1978. The fear of crime: Broadening our perspective. Victimology: An International Journal 3 (3/4): 242-53.
6. Gates, L. B., and W. M. Rohe. 1987. Fear and reactions to crime: A revised model. Urban Affairs Quarterly 22 (3): 425-53.
7. LaGrange, R. L., K. F. Ferraro, and M. Supancic. 1992. Perceived risk and fear of crime: Role of social and physical incivilities. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 29 (3): 311-34.
8. Lee, B. A. 1981. The urban unease revisited: Perceptions of local safety and neighborhood satisfaction among metropolitan residents. Social Science Quarterly 62 (4): 611-29.
9. Lewis, D. A., and M. G. Maxfield. 1980. Fear in the neighborhoods: An investigation of the impact of crime. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 17 (2): 160-89.
10. Lewis, D. A., and G. Salem. 1986. Fear of crime: Incivility and the production of a social problem. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Books.
11. Lund, L., and W. E. Wright. 1994. Mitofsky-Waksberg vs. screened random digit dial: Report on a comparison of the sample characteristics of two RDD survey designs. Paper presented at the Center for Disease Control's 11th Annual BRFSS Conference, June, Atlanta, GA.
12. Mirowsky, J., and C. E. Ross. 1996. Fundamental analysis in research on well-being: Distress and the sense of control. The Gerontologist 36 (5): 584-94.
13. Moore, M. H., and R. C. Trojanowicz. 1988. Policing and the fear of crime. In Perspectives on policing, no. 3 (June) 1-7. National Institute of Justice and the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management, Harvard University.
14. Perkins, D. D., P. Florin, R. C. Rich, A. Wandersman, and D. M. Chavis. 1990. Participation and the social and physical environment of residential blocks: Crime and community context. American Journal of Community Psychology 18 (1): 83-115.
15. Perkins, D. D., and R. B. Taylor 1996. Ecological assessments of community disorder: Their relationship to fear of crime and theoretical implications. American Journal of Community Psychology 24 (1): 63-107.
16. Perkins, D. D., A. H. Wandersman, R. C. Rich, and R. B. Taylor. 1993. The physical environment of street crime: Defensible space, territoriality and incivilities. Journal of Environmental Psychology 13 (1): 29-49.
17. Rohe, W. M., and R. J. Burby. 1988. Fear of crime in public housing. Environment and Behavior 20 (6): 700-20.
18. Rohe, W. M., and M. A. Stegman. 1994. The impact of home ownership on the social and political involvement of low-income people. Urban Affairs Quarterly 30 (1): 152-72.
19. Ross, C. E. 1993. Fear of victimization and health. Journal of Quantitative Criminology 9 (2): 159-75.
20. Ross, C. E., and S. J. Jang. 1996. Community disorder, fear and mistrust: The buffering role of social ties among neighbors. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology, November, Chicago.
21. Siegel, J. S. 1993. A generation of change: A profile of America's older population. New York: Russell Sage.
22. Simcha-Fagan, O., and J. E. Schwartz. 1986. Neighborhood and delinquency: An assessment of contextual effects. Criminology 24:667-703.
23. Skogan, W. G. 1986. Fear of crime and neighborhood change. In Communities and crime, edited by A. J. Reiss and M. Tonry, 203-30. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press.
24. _. 1990. Disorder and decline. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press.
25. Skogan, W. G., and M. G. Maxfield. 1981. Coping with crime: Individual and neighborhood reactions. Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
26. Taylor, R. B., and J. Covington. 1993. Community structural change and fear of crime. Social Problems 40 (3): 374-95.
27. Taylor, R. B. ,and M. Hale. 1986. Testing alternative models of fear of crime. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 77 (1): 151-89.
28. Taylor, R. B., and S. A. Shumaker. 1990. Local crime as a natural hazard: Implications for understanding the relationship between disorder and fear of crime. American Journal of Community Psychology 18 (5): 619-41.
29. Waksberg, J. 1978. Sampling methods for random digit dialing. Journal of the American Statistical Association 73 (1): 40-46.