Collective Efficacy and Firearms Violence in Anchorage, Alaska: Preliminary Findings

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Evans, Shel Llee
Langworthy, Robert H.
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Anchorage, AK
Anchorage Community Survey
collective efficacy
crime
firearms
violence
weapons
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http://hdl.handle.net/11122/7220
Abstract
This paper seeks to advance the discussion of the utility of collective efficacy, as captured by Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls, in understanding community levels of crime by exploring the relation between community structure, collective efficacy, and in this case firearms violence, in Anchorage, Alaska. The specific aims of this paper are to report the results of a test of the collective efficacy thesis, modeled loosely after the test presented in the 1997 Science paper by Sampson, Raudenbush and Earls, as an explanation of neighborhood rates of firearms violence in Anchorage.
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Paper also presented at the 2007 annual meeting of the Western Society of Criminology, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Table of Contents
Measures Replication and Data / Collective Efficacy and Violence in Anchorage / Discussion and Conclusions / References / Tables
Date
2007-02
Source
UAAJC Working Papers
Publisher
Justice Center, University of Alaska Anchorage
Type
Working Paper
Citation
Evans, Shel Llee; & Langworthy, Robert H. (2007). "Collective Efficacy and Firearms Violence in Anchorage, Alaska: Preliminary Findings." UAAJC Working Paper 5 (Feb 2007).
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