Neighborhoods and violent crime: a multilevel study of collective efficacy.

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Summary

Multilevel analyses showed that a measure of collective efficacy yields a high between-neighborhood reliability and is negatively associated with variations in violence, when individual-level characteristics, measurement error, and prior violence are controlled.

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1997-08-15
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Collective efficacy, Multilevel model, Psychology, Disadvantage, Social psychology

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