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Community Gardens and Crime: Exploring the Roles of Criminal Opportunity and Informal Social Control

Blair, Lesli
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1413542267

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2014, PhD, University of Cincinnati, Education, Criminal Justice, and Human Services: Criminal Justice.
Community gardens may bring people together in a way that could help to control crime. The bringing together of community members via an organization, such as a community garden, has been shown to build social capital and informal social control (Bursik & Grasmick, 1993; Morenoff et al., 2001; Sampson, 2012). Alternatively, the building of a community garden where once there was likely a vacant lot may help control crime by lowering criminal opportunity. A garden is an improvement in image and territoriality over a vacant lot, and the presence of gardeners may serve as guardians or a type of place manager. The present exploratory study analyzes several case study community gardens in comparison to similar “open-air” spaces (i.e., vacant lots, parking lots, parks/green spaces, and playgrounds) in terms of crime and measures of criminal opportunity and informal social control. The results help pave the way for a new line of research that explores theories of criminal opportunity and informal social control.
Pamela Wilcox, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Marie Skubak Tillyer, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Nicholas Corsaro, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
John Eck, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
Robin Engel, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
163 p.
Criminology

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  • Blair, L. (2014). Community Gardens and Crime: Exploring the Roles of Criminal Opportunity and Informal Social Control [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1413542267

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Blair, Lesli. Community Gardens and Crime: Exploring the Roles of Criminal Opportunity and Informal Social Control. 2014. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1413542267.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Blair, Lesli. "Community Gardens and Crime: Exploring the Roles of Criminal Opportunity and Informal Social Control." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1413542267

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