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Author Schneider, Stephen, 1963-

Title Refocusing crime prevention : collective action and the quest for community / Stephen Schneider.

Publication Info. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 359 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium monochrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-350) and index.
Summary "In Refocusing Crime Prevention Stephen Schneider explores the capacity of disadvantaged neighbourhoods to organize around issues related to local crime and disorder. He identifies obstacles to community mobilization, many of which are strongly related to demographic and socio-psychological factors, including low socio-economic status and a lack of local social integration. Other obstacles stem from weaknesses in program implementation, such as inappropriate or ineffectual community outreach and communications, a lack of resources, and leadership voids. Many of these barriers flow from broader structural forces, including political and economic conditions that contribute to the concentration of poverty, crime, and apathy in certain areas; a culture of pervasive individualism; and a reliance on the welfare state for solving social problems. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Refocusing Crime Prevention identifies and critically examines the many factors that obstruct public participation in community crime prevention programs, while formulating strategies and theories that attempt to empower disadvantaged and marginalized communities."--Jacket.
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Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""Part One: Theoretical and Empirical Background""; ""1 Community Crime Prevention: A Theoretical and Empirical Overview""; ""2 Mount Pleasant, Community Crime Prevention, and Participation in Local Collective Action""; ""Part Two: Obstacles to Participation in Community Crime Prevention Programs: Research Findings, Discussion, and Analysis""; ""3 Obstacles to Participation and Collective Action at the Individual Neighbourhood Level""; ""4 Organizational Obstacles to Participation in Community Crime Prevention""
""5 Structural Obstacles to Collective Action Crime Prevention""""Part Three: Reconceptualizing and Refocusing Community Crime Prevention""; ""6 Community Crime Prevention as Collective Action""; ""7 Crime Prevention through Community Development: An Integrated, Critically Oriented Approach to Local Organizing""; ""Notes""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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Subject Crime prevention -- British Columbia -- Vancouver -- Citizen participation.
Crime prevention.
British Columbia -- Vancouver.
Political participation.
Mount Pleasant (Vancouver, B.C.) -- Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Schneider, Stephen, 1963- Refocusing crime prevention. Toronto : University of Toronto Press, ©2007 (DLC) 2007405447 (OCoLC)70839281
ISBN 9781442684768 (electronic book)
1442684763 (electronic book)
9780802035509 (bound)
0802035507 (bound)
9780802084200 (paperback)
0802084206 (paperback)