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Author: Blair, Lesli

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

Summary: 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.

Details: Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 2014. 165p.

Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed May 17, 2018 at: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ucin1413542267&disposition=inline

Year: 2014

Country: United States

URL: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ucin1413542267&disposition=inline

Shelf Number: 150254

Keywords:
Communities and Crime
Gardens
Neighborhoods and Crime
Social Capital