Social cohesion, mutual efficacy and informal social control: Collective efficacy and community-based crime prevention (Michael C. Gearhart) - The concept of collective efficacy is often used to ...

Social investments to reduce crime must be targeted and focused on increasing informal social controls at crime hot spots. They must be oriented to helping residents of high-crime streets help ...

Wim Hardyns, Lieven J. R. Pauwels, Ben Heylen, WITHIN-INDIVIDUAL CHANGE IN SOCIAL SUPPORT, PERCEIVED COLLECTIVE EFFICACY, PERCEIVED DISORDER AND FEAR OF CRIME, The British Journal of Criminology, Vol.

Bruce Western, Lifetimes of Violence in a Sample of Released Prisoners, RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, Vol. 1, No. 2, Severe Deprivation in America (November 2015), ...