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1 results foundAuthor: Betts, Phyllis Title: Best Practice Number Ten: Fixing Broken Windows - Strategies to Strengthen Housing Code Enforcement and Related Approaches to Community-Based Crime Prevention in Memphis Summary: Inspired by the Memphis Shelby Crime Commission's vision that the quality of life in urban neighborhoods is related to crime, and that crime reduction strategies mean more than conventional law enforcement, this report examines the dynamics of the low-income housing market in Memphis neighborhoods and the performance of housing code enforcement as a tool to reduce blight. Kelling and Cole's landmark Fixing Broken Windows: Restoring Order and Reducing Crime in Our Communities (1996) argues that physical neglect and non-violent "quality of life" offenses increase fear of crime, empty neighborhoods of people who have a choice of where to live, and ultimately cede space to increasingly predatory individuals and more dangerous crimes against property and people. Like the "broken window" that remains unfixed and invites vandalism, physical neglect that is allowed to escalate and quality of life offenses that go unaddressed invite increasingly anti-social activity in urban neighborhoods. Integrating the creative understandings and evaluating the concrete crime reduction strategies that have emerged since Kelling and Wilson's original (1982) conceptualization of the broken windows phenomenon, Kelling and Cole and others argue that "problem properties" attract and aggravate criminal activity in deteriorated or declining neighborhoods. That is, neighborhood blight in the form of problem properties is "crimogenic" in that abandoned buildings, derelict vacant lots, dilapidated housing, and other neglected properties are associated with concentrations of crime. Problem properties may contribute to "hotspots" of criminal activity in that they harbor crime (e.g. the abandoned building out of which operates a drug market), or because their neglect signals a lack of care and concern, which in itself invites anti-social and criminal activity. It follows that dealing with problem properties gives communities another tool to enhance the safety of neighborhoods and the quality of life for residents. This research has three inter-related goals: 1) to enhance our understanding of the conditions that produce blighted neighborhoods and to characterize the problem as it manifests itself in Memphis; 2) to explore the potential and limitations of housing code enforcement as a strategy for countering blight, with a special emphasis on the relationship between code enforcement and the demand for affordable housing; 3) to document the code enforcement process in Memphis and evaluate new opportunities to use code enforcement as one tool in a comprehensive neighborhood-based crime reduction strategy. We conclude with a series of recommendations to strengthen the role of code enforcement and related anti-blight and community development strategies and mitigate the impact of problem properties in Memphis neighborhoods. Details: Memphis, TN: Memphis Shelby Crime Commission, 2001. 112p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 29, 2011 at: http://cbana.memphis.edu/GenResearch/BestPracticeNumber10Fixing_Broken_Windows.pdf Year: 2001 Country: United States URL: http://cbana.memphis.edu/GenResearch/BestPracticeNumber10Fixing_Broken_Windows.pdf Shelf Number: 121152 Keywords: Broken WindowsCrime Prevention (Memphis)HousingNeighborhoods and Crime |