Rates of street crime have dropped substantially over the past several decades, but
important nuances of this decline are underappreciated and the reasons for it remain …

Democratic policing today is a widely used approach to policing not only in Western
societies but increasingly around the world. Yet it is rarely defined and it is little understood …

This book will help readers understand the practice of qualitative research--whether they
want to do it, teach it, or just learn about it. All the major research phases are encompassed …

Providing a complete portal to the world of case study research, the Fourth Edition of Robert
K. Yin's bestselling text Case Study Research offers comprehensive coverage of the design …

This article presents data from the completed first wave of a multiwave comparative study of
crime, danger, and informal social control that focuses on youth living in three high‐crime …

Research within the community‐based child protection approach has used the
neighbourhood collective efficacy theory of social disorganisation to focus on investigating …

Theories of neighborhood social organization and crime have not effectively explained the
existence of socially organized, high-crime neighborhoods. We describe and test an …

For many years Chicago's looming large-scale housing projects defined the city, and their
demolition and redevelopment—via the Chicago Housing Authority's Plan for …

Why, even in the same high-crime neighborhoods, do robbery, drug dealing, and assault
occur much more frequently on some blocks than on others? One popular theory is that a …

Se analiza y ejemplifica la validez científica de los estudios de caso en las ciencias sociales
aclarando sus diversas posibilidades a partir de distinguir claramente los tipos de estudio …