Social Ties, Collective Efficacy and Perceived Neighborhood Property Crime in Guangzhou, China

被引：32

作者：

Jiang S. ^{[1
,2
]}

Land K.C. ^{[3
]}

Wang J. ^{[4
]}

机构：

[1] Criminal Justice Program, University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 43606

[2] College of Sociology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan

[3] Department of Sociology, Duke University, Durham, NC

[4] Department of Sociology, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou

来源：

Asian Journal of Criminology | 2013年 / 8卷 / 3期

关键词：

China; Collective efficacy; Multilevel analysis; Perceived property crime;

D O I：

10.1007/s11417-013-9167-1

中图分类号：

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摘要：

This study aims to (1) explore perceptions of property crime at the neighborhood level and their correlates based on a random sample from Guangzhou, China and (2) assess the applicability of collective efficacy theory in contemporary urban China. Since the data used in this study are multilevel and the dependent variable is dichotomous, a generalized hierarchical linear model was used for analysis of the data. This study reveals that both community structural variables (residential stability and poverty) and community process variables (social ties, collective efficacy and semi-formal control) were found to affect individuals' perceptions of neighborhood property crime in Guangzhou. However, communities in Guangzhou are different from those in big cities in the US. This is evidenced by several findings in this study: (1) poorer communities in Guangzhou were not associated with lower levels of formal and informal control; (2) communities with higher levels of residential mobility were neither linked to higher levels of poverty nor disorganization; and (3) the correlation between residential stability and perceived neighborhood property crime was not mediated by community processes. © 2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.

引用

页码：207 / 223

页数：16

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